Hezbollah announced it will fight those providing arms to the Islamic State group. | Photo: Reuters
Published 22 February 2015
After announcing it was active in Iraq, Hezbollah is seeking to stop arms flowing to Islamic State group.
Hezbollah, the political party and resistance movement that has been fighting Israeli occupation of Lebanon for decades, has declared a new plan for defeating Islamic State group in Iraq.
On Friday the group announced a special initiative aimed at preventing the arming of the Islamic State group in Iraq.
It follows remarks earlier last week from the head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, saying the Lebanese resistance movement has been fighting Islamic State in Iraq.
“We may not have spoken about Iraq before, but we have a limited presence because of the sensitive phase that Iraq is going through,” Nasrallah said.
The latest initiative is part of a policy seeking to avoid more civilians becoming victims of the conflict, stated a communique from the movement.
“In order to target helicopters and planes that send weapons and food to the armed group from abroad, we will establish anti-helicopter missiles on all the fighting fronts against Daesh (the name for Islamic State group in Arab),” details the statement.
Sophisticated anti-aerial missiles will be able to take down any flying system, according to Hezbollah, adding that its brigades are equipped with “new and sophisticated weapons and munitions, which will allow the achievement of this goal in an effective way.”
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