More than 700 Somali fighters helped Hezbollah in its war with Israel over the summer, a U.N. report said. Reuters reported Monday on the confidential U.N. document, which said that Islamic militants traveled from Somalia to fight alongside Hezbollah during the monthlong conflict, for which they were repaid with training and weapons from Syria and Iran.
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