Hezbollah's leader vowed to help propel President Bashar al-Assad to victory in Syria's bloody civil war, warning that the fall of the Damascus regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a "dark period." In a televised address, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah also said Hezbollah members are fighting in Syria against Islamic radicals who pose a danger to Lebanon, and pledged that his group will not allow Syrian militants to control areas along the Lebanese border. He pledged that Hezbollah will turn the tide of the conflict in Assad's favor. "We will continue this road until the end, we will take the responsibility and we will make all the sacrifices," he said. "We will be victorious."
Syria's fall, he said, would mean "Palestine will be lost" and "the people of our region will enter a bad and dark period." Nasrallah's comments offered the clearest public confirmation yet of Hezbollah's involvement in Syria, though the group has come under harsh criticism for sending gunmen to Qusair. The Assad regime has been one of Hezbollah's strongest backers for decades and the militant group fears that if the regime falls it will be replaced by a US-backed government hostile to Hezbollah. "Syria is the back of the resistance, and the resistance cannot stand, arms folded while its back is broken," Nasrallah told supporters. "If Syria falls into the hand of America (and) Israel, the resistance (Hezbollah) will be besieged and Israel will enter Lebanon and impose its will," Nasrallah said. (More Hezbollah stories.)
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