BEIRUT: The opposition National Syrian Coalition said 15 fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah had been killed in recent battles against Syrian rebels in the village of Flita in Syria’s mountainous Qalamoun region on the border with Lebanon.
“In Qalamoun, 15 members of the terrorist Hezbollah militia have been killed in clashes with revolution fighters in the outskirts of Flita,” the coalition said in a statement Thursday.
It claimed that the rebels captured several new positions in the rugged region.
In the same statement, the coalition said the Syrian regime forces dropped several barrel bombs on the outskirts of the east Lebanon town of Arsal during clashes with rebels Thursday.