Sources close to Hezbollah stressed to Al-Monitor that the party is fully focused on assessing the possible consequences on Syria and Lebanon of events related to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), which now calls itself the Islamic State.
The leadership of the primary and strongest Shiite organization in Lebanon and the region has, over the past two weeks, embarked on studying the facts of what happened in northwest Iraq — how it happened and its direct and indirect causes — so it can take precautions, according to the sources.
