Nasrallah says Hezbollah will keep fighting in Syria war

BEIRUT - Agence France-Presse

Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gestures as he addresses his supporters in a rare public appearance during a religious ceremony on the eve of Ashura in Beirut's southern suburbs November 13, 2013. REUTERS photo

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed to keep his forces in Syria where they are fighting alongside President Bashar al-Assad's regime, in a rare public speech delivered in Beirut on Thursday.
 
"We have said on several occasions that the presence of our soldiers on Syrian soil is to defend... Syria, which supports the resistance" against Israel, said the Lebanese Shiite leader.
 
"Our presence there is justified," he told hundreds of thousands marking a Shiite commemoration in south Beirut, in his second public appearance in as many days.