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Report: Assad secretly meets Hizbullah leader Nasrallah

Syrian President Bashar Assad secretly met Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah, a Lebanese paper reported Tuesday. According to the report in Al Akhbar, the meeting took place in the context of a Syrian situation assessment following the Lebanese elections in June, where the pro-Shi'ite camp led by Hizbullah was defeated. The election was won by the pro-Western camp, led by Sa'ad Hariri.