{"id":26350,"date":"2016-06-25T05:11:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T05:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/hezbollah-to-send-more-fighters-to-syria-s-aleppo\/"},"modified":"2016-06-25T05:11:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T05:11:25","slug":"hezbollah-to-send-more-fighters-to-syria-s-aleppo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/hezbollah-to-send-more-fighters-to-syria-s-aleppo\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah to send more fighters to Syria’s Aleppo"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Lebanese ally of Syrian government acknowledges heavy losses but vows to fight on as “retreat is not permissible”.}<\/p>\n

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement has said he will send more fighters to Syria’s Aleppo area, a battleground where it has suffered heavy losses fighting alongside Syrian government forces against rebel groups.<\/p>\n

Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that thousands of Hezbollah’s Sunni foes had recently entered Syria via the Turkish border with the aim of taking over Aleppo and its surrounding countryside.<\/p>\n

“We are facing a new wave…of projects of war against Syria which are being waged in northern Syria, particularly in the Aleppo region,” Nasrallah said in a speech broadcast live on the group’s Al Manar TV.<\/p>\n

Shia, Iranian-backed Hezbollah has long supported President Bashar al-Assad against mostly Sunni rebels.<\/p>\n

“The defence of Aleppo is the defence of the rest of Syria, it is the defence of Damascus, it is also the defence of Lebanon, and of Iraq,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We will increase our presence in Aleppo,” he said. “Retreat is not permissible.”<\/p>\n

Nasrallah also denied Hezbollah was in imminent fiscal trouble as a result of a US law banning banks worldwide from dealing with the group.<\/p>\n

Last month, Lebanon’s central bank instructed the country’s banks and financial institutions to comply with the new measure.<\/p>\n

But Nasrallah said on Friday that Hezbollah would not be affected because it receives its money directly from Iran, not via Lebanese banks.<\/p>\n

“We do not have any business projects or investments via banks,” Nasrallah said, insisting the group “will not be affected”. <\/p>\n

“We are open about the fact that Hezbollah’s budget, its income, its expenses, everything it eats and drinks, its weapons and rockets, are from the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he added. <\/p>\n

Iran was instrumental in Hezbollah’s inception three decades ago and has provided financial and military support to the group.<\/p>\n

{{The divided city}}<\/p>\n

Aleppo has been a focus of intensified fighting in the months since peace talks in Geneva broke down and a ceasefire deal brokered by Washington and Moscow unravelled.<\/p>\n

Russia intervened in the five-year-old conflict in September with an air campaign to support Assad.<\/p>\n

The city is split between government and rebel control. Russian and Syrian warplanes have pounded a road leading from the rebel-held areas north towards the Turkish border.<\/p>\n

That major rebel supply line from Turkey to Aleppo city was effectively cut by government advances earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Nasrallah said that 26 Hezbollah fighters had been killed in June alone, a rare acknowledgment of the toll their involvement was taking.<\/p>\n

Several of its senior military commanders have died in the Syrian conflict, alongside hundreds of fighters.<\/p>\n

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