(AP-Washington Post) Bassem Mroue - Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Wednesday that militant leaders from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and other countries have offered to send tens of thousands of fighters to help Hizbullah, but he said the group already has more than 100,000 fighters. Thousands of Iran-backed fighters from around the region are already deployed in Syria. Eran Etzion, former head of policy planning for the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Thursday that there could be intervention by the Houthis and Iraqi militias and a "massive flow of jihadists from (places) including Afghanistan, Pakistan" into Lebanon and into Syrian areas bordering Israel.
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