Hezbollah has `presence` in Iraq fighting: Nasrallah

Lebanon`s Shiite movement Hezbollah is involved in fighting in Iraq, its chief Hassan Nasrallah revealed for the first time Monday in a speech beamed to supporters in southern Beirut.

Beirut: Lebanon`s Shiite movement Hezbollah is involved in fighting in Iraq, its chief Hassan Nasrallah revealed for the first time Monday in a speech beamed to supporters in southern Beirut.

"We may not have spoken about Iraq before, but we have a limited presence because of the sensitive phase that Iraq is going through," Nasrallah said in reference to ongoing clashes between Iraqi troops, several militias and Kurdish forces against the jihadist Islamic State group.

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