(25.7.2017) The leader of Lebanon‘s Hezbollah said on Wednesday that the group was close to defeating Nusra Front militants in the battle along the Syrian-Lebanese border.

„We are in the face of a very big military victory,“ Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech. The militants have „effectively lost“ most of the land they held in the barren, mountainous border region of Jroud Arsal, he added.