Hezbollah helping prop up Syrian regime in fight with rebels




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Summary: The leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement on Tuesday publicly acknowledged for the first time that fighters from the group were aiding the Syrian regime in its bloody war with armed rebel groups. In a televised address Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said the fighters had gone to protect Lebanese living in villages around the Syrian town of al-Qusayr, near the border