` We are seeing the greatest proxy war of modern times playing itself out in Lebanon and Syria and Iraq , that have now become really one battlefield in which two great ideological camps are fighting to the death like gladiators , '' he said . A Sunni Islamist group claims responsibility for a suicide bombing in Beirut . The group , Hezbollah , says it 's the `` first small payment '' in a bigger push against Hezbollah . August 's car bomb detonated in a Beirut suburb known as a Hezbollah stronghold . Syria has seen a surge in violence as tensions are exacerbated by Lebanon 's civil war .
A Sunni Islamist group claims responsibility for a suicide bombing in Beirut . The group , Hezbollah , says it 's the `` first small payment '' in a bigger push against Hezbollah . August 's car bomb detonated in a Beirut suburb known as a Hezbollah stronghold . Syria has seen a surge in violence as tensions are exacerbated by Lebanon 's civil war .