Iraq events cause Hezbollah to go on full alert - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
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What happened on the ground in Mosul, Salahuddin and Anbar not only broke the logistical umbilical cord between Tehran and Hezbollah, it also changed the military power balance in Iraq, Syria and even Lebanon.
In their military calculations, the sources indicated that Hezbollah has reopened the field maps of the areas stretching from west Iraq, particularly in Anbar, all the way to Beirut — in other words, the areas extending across the province of Homs, all the way to northeast Lebanon. Hezbollah fought tough battles in those areas since May 2013 to keep Sunni fundamentalist gunmen away, and succeeded in closing those areas after controlling Qusair in Homs in June 2013 and then Yabrud in Qalamoun in March 2014. But today, it seems ISIS has revived its hopes and dreams in that crescent. All sleeper cells have awakened and those that were already awake were reactivated.
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