Hezbollah fighters say a 'duty' to help Syria's Assad

BINT JBEIL, Lebanon - As he pushes a cart full of tomatoes and cucumbers in the market at Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, nothing marks out Mahmud as an experienced Hezbollah fighter. The stocky vegetable vendor in his fifties, who sports a red beard, fought Israel here in 2006, but that battle is now old news. He has just come back from another front: in Syria, where he fought for 25 days