TY  - RPRT
A1  - Stormbroek, Gerben
T1  - The party of God. Hezbollah and the conflict in Syria
T2  - sicherheitspolitik-blog.de
N2  - “We shall bring victory”. Those were the words of sheik Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah, on 25 may 2013. Usually these words would be directed at Israel, the sworn enemy of the Lebanese movement. But this time Nasrallah was referring to the fighting in Syria. That night Hezbollah explicitly chose to side with the Syrian government in her fight against the rebels in the ongoing civil war. Why does the Shia Islamic and pro-Iranian Hezbollah stand so firmly alongside the secular Arab nationalist regime of Bashar al-Assad? What are the consequences for Lebanon and what does the interference of Hezbollah tell us about the balance of power in the small and deeply divided neighbouring country of Syria?
KW  - hezbollah
KW  - hisbollah
KW  - syria
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/35987
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-359870
UR  - http://www.sicherheitspolitik-blog.de/2013/09/30/the-party-of-god-hezbollah-and-the-conflict-in-syria/
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -