Hezbollah convoy exits Syria’s Qusayr as opposition forces take over city, Syrian army sources say

A picture taken on June 8, 2013 shows Syrian army soldiers patroling a street in the village of Buweida, north of Qusayr, in Syria's central Homs province. (AFP)
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  • 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

AMMAN: Lebanon’s Hezbollah group withdrew from the Syrian city of Qusayr along the border with Lebanon shortly before militant forces seized it, Syrian army sources said on Sunday.
They said 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.