Reuters, Beirut, 14 July 2014 – Seven fighters from the Lebanese group Hezbollah were killed in fighting with Sunni Islamist insurgents in a mountainous area on the Syria-Lebanon border in which at least 16 rebels were also killed, a monitoring group reported on Monday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition-affiliated watchdog, said a further 31 fighters from Hezbollah had been wounded in the fighting in the border area between Ras al-Maara in Syria and Arsal in northeast Lebanon.

Syrian government forces and Hezbollah “control the area, but they don’t control every cave and mountain. There are many areas to hide in the mountains”, said Rami Abdurrahman, the Britain-based head of the Observatory.