Over the last week Hezbullah and the Lebanese army have unofficially joined together to fight a commen enemy: ISIS.
This is really unprecedented as they have not worked together before. Again, both sides deny they are working together but it wasn't a coincidence they both attacked at the same time from opposite sides.
Hezbullah is also protecting a Christian town from being taken over by ISIS.
Here is an old article but relevant now as tensions have flared up and they're protecting the same town now as well.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...k-by-isis.html
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Asked why Hezbollah took such pains to protect a Christian town, Abdullah shrugs. “Christians have a holy book just like us,” he replies. “They’re people just like us. They’re Lebanese, so we protect them.”
It’s a role most Americans wouldn’t associate with Hezbollah, which remains on the U.S. State Department’s terrorism list as a result of bombings and kidnappings of U.S. citizens associated with it during the Lebanese Civil War. But to the people of Ras Baalbek, Hezbollah is their only hope of holding on to the life and village they’ve always known. A man who owns a small grocery store in the middle of town says he did what he could to assist Hezbollah as they battled ISIS in the hills outside the village.
“If it weren’t for Hezbollah, you would be seeing daesh playing in our village right now,” he explains as he pours a glass of lemonade. “We’ve never seen anything bad from Hezbollah — the army can’t defend this whole area. If daesh comes, God forbid, we know what will happen to us. We saw what they did to the Christians in Syria and Iraq. That’s why we’re on alert, thanks be to God and to Hezbollah, who are protecting us. I have an injury from the war, so I can’t walk very well, but I helped them fill their guns with bullets.”
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