A senior Syrian official told the Wall Street Journal Monday that the Syrian army and its ally Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group classified by the U.S. as a terrorist organization, would hit American warships now stationed in the Mediterranean Sea should the U.S. launch an attack.
“The resistance and the armed forces are now one body,” Syrian parliament member Khaled Abboud, a confidant of President Bashar al-Assad, told the Journal in reference to Hezbollah. “In my assessment, Hezbollah will side with Syria in certain operations targeting warships in the Mediterranean.”
The Syrian government has ordered civilians to move away from military bases around Damascus and began to move soldiers into vacant apartments in that city, according to the Journal, as members of Congress debate a U.S. response to the Assad regime’s chemical weapons use.
