BEIRUT: Hezbollah is recruiting young Christian, Druze and Sunni men in east Lebanon to fight ISIS, the local newspaper An-Nahar reported Wednesday.
The report, according to information obtained by the paper, said Hezbollah members in the northern and western parts of the Bekaa Valley were offering the recruits weapons and training “to counter the threat of ISIS and its affiliates.”
An-Nahar said the recruitment campaign is dubbed “our fate is one and we have to fight together.”
Lebanon is engaged in a war against ISIS and Nusra Front jihadists along its northern and northeastern border with Syria after the extremists briefly took over the Bekaa town of Arsal early in August, capturing over 30 Lebanese servicemen.
The militants have so far released seven hostages and killed three.
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