Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said Friday he was ready to launch an offensive against the Islamic State group on the Lebanon-Syria border, days after forcing Al-Qaeda's former Syrian branch from the area.
In a televised speech broadcast on Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel, Nasrallah also demanded news within days about the fate of nine Lebanese soldiers kidnapped by IS in 2014.Read more
A leading Arab satellite operator cut transmission of Hezbollah's television channel Al-Manar on Wednesday amid soaring tensions between the Lebanese Shiite group's backer Iran and Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia.
"Nilesat informed the (Lebanese) telecommunications ministry of the need to stop transmitting Al-Manar channel through the Nilesat satellite," Lebanon's National News Agency reported.
"The management of Nilesat said the reason forRead more