Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib conveyed the message to his Syrian counterpart Asaad Hassan al-Shibani in a telephone conversation, the Lebanese Foreign Ministry said on social media platform X.
Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement played a major role in supporting ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during years of war, before returning its fighters to Lebanon over the past year to fight in the bitter war it had started with Israel – a move that has weakened the Syrian government’s defense lines.
Under Assad’s rule, Hezbollah used Syria to ship weapons and other military equipment from Iran, through Iraq and Syria, and into Lebanon. However, on December 6, fighters against Assad seized the border with Iraq and cut off that route, and two days later Islamist rebels captured the capital Damascus.
The rebels’ lightning attack on Syria came shortly after a November ceasefire halted the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Hezbollah began attacking across Israel’s northern border in support of Gaza a day after the Palestinian group Hamas launched a devastating attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 that triggered the ongoing Gaza war, Reuters reports.
(Vijesti.ba/FENA)
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