BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah called for Middle Eastern unity in fighting the Islamic State.
In a speech, delivered Monday by videotape to his followers in suburban Beirut, the leader of the Lebanese militant organization and political party urged Arab states to put aside sectarian differences and reliance on the United States, to join Hezbollah, and by extension its patron, Iran, in confronting IS.