Kamel Wazne, a Beirut-based political analyst who specialises in Hezbollah has said that the group has many contingency plans for any number of outcomes to the Syrian conflict.

Bashar al-Assad's future could play a large role in the the Hassan Nasrallah-led party's support base.

But Kamel says the decades-old group is prepared to continue in its fight against Israel, even if they lose the support of their main ally, Iran.