23 Hezbollah fighters killed in Syria's Qusayr: watchdog

BEIRUT: At least 23 members of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have been killed fighting alongside regime troops in the Syrian town of Qusayr, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday.

"Reliable sources informed the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that 23 members of Hezbollah's elite forces were killed and more than 70 others wounded in clashes in the town of Qusayr yesterday," the group said in a statement.