Beirut - Eleven Hezbollah fighters and
seven Syrian soldiers were killed in an offensive against
Islamic State in Syria's western Qalamoun region, the leader of
Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Monday.
After a week-long battle, a convoy of Islamic State fighters
began to depart the Syria-Lebanon border region on Monday under
Syrian military escort, leaving for eastern Syria.
A ceasefire had halted the fighting in an Islamic State
enclave at the border, where the militants had been battling the
Lebanese army on one front and Shi'ite Hezbollah with the Syrian
army on the other.