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Originally Posted by calgaryblood
Lebanon is a democracy with elections. If the people elect someone from Hezbullah it doesn't mean the Lebanese army is working with Hezbullah.
And it wasn't a "truce", ISIS got destroyed and had no chance. They were in a small area and being attacked from all sides, on the ground and from the air. They had no chance.
Only reason they agreed to stop killing them was so they can give up the location of the 9 Lebanese soldiers who were kidnapped in 2013 in exchange for letting the ones that survived back into Syria.
8 of the 9 Lebanese soldiers were found dead.
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I wasn't insinuating that the Lebanese government is typically on the same side as Hezbollah, just that communication between the two is regular and that there are likely all sorts of deals worked out between the two.
There's also conflicting reports about how successful Hezbollah/Lebanon had been against ISIS. The same way we have been constantly hearing from Russia, for several years now, that the ISIS threat is over. If it's true that Lebanon has allowed safe passage of ISIS troops back into Syria and Hezbollah has agreed to stop attacking ISIS in Syria, that's a very large concession. It looks like Lebanon also agreed to allow the release of ISIS soldiers in custody in exchange for the Lebanese soldiers:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/w...a.html?mcubz=3