Hezbollah withdrew from the Syrian city of Qusayr along the border with Lebanon shortly before rebel forces seized it, Syrian army sources said, Reuters reports.
They told Reuters at least 150 armored vehicles carrying hundreds of fighters left the city in phases. Qusayr has long been a major supply route for the militia’s arms transfers and flow of fighters in and out of Syria since Hezbollah seized it in 2013 at the early phase of the Syrian conflict.
Israel, which has repeatedly hit Hezbollah weapons depots and underground fortifications it had built in the city, hit one of the convoys that was leaving, one source said, without elaborating.
