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GlobalPost travels with Hezbollah as it steps up its support for the Syrian government, helping it retake key rebel strongholds on the road to Damascus.
At least 23 pro-Assad fighters of the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah have been killed in the battle for the strategically vital Syrian city of Qusayr.
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