Nusra Martyrdom Operation killed 9 Hezbulat in the heart of Damascus
Lebanese newspaper says they were Pilgrims. These Pilgrims must be crazy to travel to Damascus midst of the war.
At least 6 dead in Lebanese pilgrim bus blast in Damascus | News , Lebanon News | THE DAILY STAR
BEIRUT: A blast on a Lebanese bus carrying Shiite pilgrims in a central district of the Syrian capital killed at least six people and wounded up to 20 Sunday, media reports said.
A Twitter account associated with the Nusra Front claimed responsibility for the blast, saying one of the group's members blew himself up inside the bus.
However, Al-Manar is reporting that the bus was not struck by a suicide attack but by an explosive device planted towards the front end of the bus.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that seven were killed and 20 wounded in the attack, which took place in the Souq al-Hamadiyeh neighbourhood of Damascus.
Skynews Arabia confirmed the Lebanese media reports saying the bus was Lebanese and carried Lebanese Shiite visitors.
The explosion was also reported by Syrian state media, with the official SANA news agency saying at least four people had been killed and 19 wounded.
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said the bus was reportedly carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims visiting religious sites in the capital.
Parts of Damascus have remained relatively unscathed by the fighting raging in much of Syriasince an uprising erupted in March 2011
But rebels regularly fire rockets into the capital from rear bases in the surrounding countryside and the city has also been hit by bombings.
More than 200,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict started, and around half of the country's population has been displaced.
At least 6 dead in Lebanese pilgrim bus blast in Damascus | News , Lebanon News | THE DAILY STAR
Nasrallah threatens to resign from Hezbollah leadership unless Tehran increases funding: report
#Lebanon, 31-01-2015: A senior official with the Hezbollah leadership has told Radio Sawt Beirut International that the party’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has sent an urgent letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, requesting an immediate and significant increase in military assistance and financial support. This follows the deaths of a number of Hezbollah leadership figures and an increase in deaths among lower-ranking members fighting in Syria, which has reportedly led to increasing internal disarray among the party ranks, especially among the families of those killed. The hospitals in Hezbollah-controlled areas of south Lebanon are full of those injured in fighting and the bodies of the dead, the official said, with many families unhappy at sending their sons into battle in Syria following Hezbollah’s appeals for fighters.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the Hezbollah official claimed that in the letter to Khamenei, Nasrallah stressed that the party needs more support from the Islamic Republic of Iran, adding that he is “unlikely to tolerate any delay.” Nasrallah further reportedly stated that he is unwilling to accept responsibility for negative repercussions on the party, especially in loyalist areas, warning that he is already facing increasing pressure from security and political bodies in Lebanon and any failure on Iran’s part to respond positively to the demands for further support could push him to resign his position.
Nasrallah is reportedly especially keen to resolve this issue since the party is supporting the Tehran regime’s wish to enter into a war with Israel, with Hezbollah currently unable to sustain the potentially massive human and financial costs involved without further Iranian assistance.
The senior Hezbollah official told Radio Sawt Beirut International that tensions had increased between the party and the Iranian leadership over recent budget cuts imposed in the wake of falling oil prices, to the degree that Nasrallah recently refused to meet with the Iranian Ambassador to Beirut, instead sending the envoy a message similar to the one sent to Khamenei in the letter.
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حسن نصرالله يهدد خامنئي بالإستقالة من قيادة حزب الله!
