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Hezbollah, Al-Nusra Front in Talks on Prisoner Exchange

© AP Photo / Bassem MroueHezbollah fighter looks toward Syria while standing in the fields of the Lebanese border village of Brital, Lebanon. (File)
Hezbollah fighter looks toward Syria while standing in the fields of the Lebanese border village of Brital, Lebanon. (File) - Sputnik International
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group and the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front are negotiating the exchange of captives from their clashes in Syria, Lebanese media reported Thursday.

Police members of U.N. peacekeepers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrol along a road in Marjayoun plain near the Lebanese-Israeli border, southern Lebanon, January 4, 2016 - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Three Hezbollah fighters were captured by al-Nusra Front radicals in Aleppo two months ago, al-Akhbar daily newspaper said. Hezbollah is also holding several Nusra gunmen, it added.

A Qatari representative is reported to be mediating the negotiations allegedly involving Abou Malek Talleh, the top Nusra militant in Syria’s strategic southern Qalamoun area.

Hezbollah, a Shiite militia based in Lebanon, has been fighting insurgents in Syria, including the Sunni al-Nusra Front.

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