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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - The ultraconservative Salafi Jihadi current in Jordan threatened the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, whose pro-Syrian regime forces are fighting in Syria, from advancing towards the Syrian-Jordanian border.

With over 500 of its members fighting alongside the opposition rebels in Syria, the Salafi Jihadi movement warned the Shiite Lebanese group of any attempts to near the Jordanian border amid the ongoing crisis in the neighboring country.

The movement's leader Mohammad Shalabi, known as "Abu Sayyaf," reacted to news reports on Tuesday that Hezbollah fighters are advancing southward in Syria toward Deraa, bordering Jordan, stressing that he was able to confirm the reports through the movement's contacts inside Syria.

Abu Sayyaf blasted Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah, emphasizing in statements to Ammon News on Tuesday that "Nasrallah and the Shiites are delusional if they think that Jordan is like Syria and Lebanon, they will only find flaming fire facing them here."

Hezbollah forces fighting in Syria are advancing southwards towards the border town of Deraa on the Syrian-Jordanian borders, a source affiliated with Hezbollah said.

Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah fighting forces are sent to Syria to fight alongside the Syrian regime's military, including a comprehensive logistics team from Hezbollah's Military chiefs of staff that manage the transport, movement, and weapons supplies of the fighters in Syria, the source told the Kuwaiti-based Qabas newspaper.

The source added that Hezbollah fighting units "played a major role" in Syrian Army's reclaiming of the town of Khirbat Ghazalah, a strategic location on the interstate between Damascus and Deraa, in southern Syria near the Jordanian border.

Bashar al-Assad's regime forces clashed with rebel fighters near the insurgent-held Qusayr in central Syria on Monday, backed by pro-regime militia and Hezbollah fighters, AFP reported.

Hezbollah repeatedly stressed its support to Assad's regime, and is backing Syrian forces with fighting units and weapons supplies, particularly in the towns on the Lebanese-Syrian border, in the crisis that has claimed the lives of over 100,000 people and displaced millions.