An image grab taken from Hezbollah's al-Manar TV on December 3, 2013 shows Hassan Nasrallah, chief of Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah movement (AFP Photo)
Though Adversaries On The Surface, U.S. And Hezbollah Share A Goal -- New York Times
BEIRUT, Lebanon — They are sworn enemies who insist they will never work together, but in practice, Hezbollah and the United States are already working — separately — on a common goal: to stop the extremist Islamic State from moving into Lebanon, where Hezbollah is the most powerful military and political player and currently shares with Washington an interest in stability.
Weeks after Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group and political party, helped repel an Islamic State attack on the town of Arsal on the Syrian border, new American weapons are flowing to help the Lebanese Army — which coordinates with Hezbollah — to secure the frontier. American intelligence shared with the army, according to Lebanese experts on Hezbollah, has helped the organization stop suicide attacks on its domain in southern Beirut.
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Update: Hezbollah, warily, lines up with 'Great Satan' to fight against IS -- Nicholas Blanford, CSM
My Comment: News on secret talks between the U.S. and Hezbollah were first raised in April .... Are Secret US-Hezbollah Talks Being Held? .... resulting in open speculation in August that a U.S. - Hezbollah - Iran"understanding" was being pursued. Flash forward to today .... the U.S. is already assisting Hezbollah .... and now everyone is raising eyebrows that this assistance may now involve military aid .... US Reportedly Providing Indirect Military Aid to Hezbollah (Arutz Sheva).
From where I am standing ... I think I see a trend.