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Shia Hizbullat Soldiers on top of a Sunni Mosque in Qusayr with Banner reading "Ya Hussein"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUsMFxrah0c
A video posted Saturday on YouTube showed gunmen purportedly speaking with a Lebanese accent declaring Syrias Al-Qusayr a Shiite city, after rebels lost the battle for the strategic area.
The men shown in the video raised a Shiite flag that read Ya Hussein, one of the Shiites most revered religious figures, on one of the citys Sunni mosques. They were also chanting we are the sons of Ali, another key figure in the Shiite and Alawite Muslim confessions.
Al-Qusayr, a Sunni-majority city, has witnessed fierce clashes between Syrian regime forces, supported by fighters from the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, and rebel forces.
On Wednesday, the rebels conceded they had lost the battle for the strategic town after the army claimed it had seized total control of it and the surrounding region.
At the same time, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Hezbollah fighters, who had spearheaded the regime's assault, were in control of the town.
Control of Al-Qusayr was vital for the rebels as it was their principal transit point for weapons and fighters from neighboring Lebanon.
The group's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has acknowledged that members of his movement are involved in the Syria conflict which has so far left more than 94,000 people dead according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog.
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/nownews/armed-men-declare-qusayr-a-shiite-city
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An amateur video posted online by activists showed fighters from the Lebanese Shiite group, Hezbollah, raising a flag with Ya Hussein or Oh hail Hussein inscribed on it, in a new sign of escalating sectarianism in Syrias civil war, reported Al Arabiya news channel.
Shiites highly revere Hussein, who is Prophet Mohammeds grandson. Hussein and his father Ali, who is also the prophets cousin, were seen by Shiites as the right successors in the Caliphate after the prophets death.
Syria is ruled by minority Allawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. President Bashar al-Assads regime claims the rebels, most of whom are Sunnis, fighting against his government are radical Islamists and are terrorists.
The video appeared as the Syrian regime claimed victory with the backing of Hezbollah fighters on the final opposition stronghold in the area surrounding Syrias central town of Qusayr, the village of Buwayda.
Our heroic troops have restored safety and security in Eastern Buwayda, AFP news agency reported Syrian state television as saying on Saturday.
Hundreds of people who fled Qusayr during battles between opposition and regime fighters had taken refuge in Buwayda when the town was captured by Syrian forces earlier this week, according to AFP.
Video: Hezbollah fighters raise flag on Qusayr mosque - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUsMFxrah0c
A video posted Saturday on YouTube showed gunmen purportedly speaking with a Lebanese accent declaring Syrias Al-Qusayr a Shiite city, after rebels lost the battle for the strategic area.
The men shown in the video raised a Shiite flag that read Ya Hussein, one of the Shiites most revered religious figures, on one of the citys Sunni mosques. They were also chanting we are the sons of Ali, another key figure in the Shiite and Alawite Muslim confessions.
Al-Qusayr, a Sunni-majority city, has witnessed fierce clashes between Syrian regime forces, supported by fighters from the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, and rebel forces.
On Wednesday, the rebels conceded they had lost the battle for the strategic town after the army claimed it had seized total control of it and the surrounding region.
At the same time, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Hezbollah fighters, who had spearheaded the regime's assault, were in control of the town.
Control of Al-Qusayr was vital for the rebels as it was their principal transit point for weapons and fighters from neighboring Lebanon.
The group's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has acknowledged that members of his movement are involved in the Syria conflict which has so far left more than 94,000 people dead according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog.
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/nownews/armed-men-declare-qusayr-a-shiite-city
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An amateur video posted online by activists showed fighters from the Lebanese Shiite group, Hezbollah, raising a flag with Ya Hussein or Oh hail Hussein inscribed on it, in a new sign of escalating sectarianism in Syrias civil war, reported Al Arabiya news channel.
Shiites highly revere Hussein, who is Prophet Mohammeds grandson. Hussein and his father Ali, who is also the prophets cousin, were seen by Shiites as the right successors in the Caliphate after the prophets death.
Syria is ruled by minority Allawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. President Bashar al-Assads regime claims the rebels, most of whom are Sunnis, fighting against his government are radical Islamists and are terrorists.
The video appeared as the Syrian regime claimed victory with the backing of Hezbollah fighters on the final opposition stronghold in the area surrounding Syrias central town of Qusayr, the village of Buwayda.
Our heroic troops have restored safety and security in Eastern Buwayda, AFP news agency reported Syrian state television as saying on Saturday.
Hundreds of people who fled Qusayr during battles between opposition and regime fighters had taken refuge in Buwayda when the town was captured by Syrian forces earlier this week, according to AFP.
Video: Hezbollah fighters raise flag on Qusayr mosque - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page
