Hezbollah dismisses allegations of involvement in Syria clashes
TEHRAN (Iran News) The Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, has strongly rejected allegations of involvement in the ongoing clashes in Syria between loyalists of toppled president Bashar al-Assad and security forces of the interim government.
“Some parties are keen to drag Hezbollah’s name into the events taking place in Syria and accuse it of being a party to the conflict,” Lebanon’s Al-Manar TV quoted a statement by the resistance movement on Saturday.
“Hezbollah clearly and categorically denies these baseless allegations,” the statement added, according to Al-Manar.
The movement called on media outlets not to be drawn into “disinformation campaigns”, which Hezbollah said are aimed at serving “political goals and suspicious foreign agendas.”
Violence has gripped Syria’s coastal region since Thursday when fighting broke out between Assad’s loyalists and security forces of the interim government led by Ahmad al-Sharaa whose militant group, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), led an offensive in December last year, which toppled Assad’s government.
On Saturday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor that has been following up developments in Syria over the past years, said that more than 200 people have been killed since the fighting erupted, according to AP.
Al-Sharaa’s government has not published any death toll.
- source : irna
