This is on top of the 5,000 fighters Hezbollah sent last week.
Via Al Arabiya:
Over 1,000 members of the Lebanese Shitte militant group, Hezbollah, entered Syria in the past few days via waterways in the Mediterranean Sea, Saudi daily al-Watan reported on Sunday.
According to the report, around 1,200 fighters arrived to Syria’s Tartus port in order to fight alongside regime troops.
The armed members who arrived from Lebanon to Syria committed “a hideous crime” in the town of Talkalkh, the daily said, adding that tens of thousands of fighters entered from Iraq to aid the Syrian regime.
Last week, Bahrain became the first Arab country to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
The daily quoted sources as saying that the Damascus regime “is resorting to the aid of fighters from Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan, which implies that the Syrian recruits’ desire to fight alongside the regime is decreasing.”