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The Syrian opposition, [a] also known as the Syrian revolutionaries, [b] is an umbrella term for the rebel groups that opposed the Assad regime in Syria. In July 2011, at the beginning of the Syrian civil war, defectors from the Syrian Armed Forces formed the Free Syrian Army.
The funeral procession of Syrian General Mohammed al-Awwad who was assassinated in Damascus in 2012 Syrian Army soldiers after the 2016 Palmyra offensive.. The Syrian Armed Forces were made up of the Syrian Arab Army (includes Republican Guard), Syrian Arab Navy, Syrian Arab Air Force, the Syrian Air Defense Force and the paramilitary National Defence Forces. [4]
It was also reported that rebels managed to enter the Damascus neighborhood of Barzeh. [146] On that day, the Syrian Army command informed its officers that Assad's government had ended, [147] and Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali announced that he was ready "to cooperate with any leadership chosen by the people". [148]
Nassim Abu Ara, a former commander of the Free Syrian Army under the Youth of Sunna Forces, is one of the leaders that have been identified. Prior to joining the rebels at the start of the Syrian civil war, Abu Ara served as an officer in Assad's army. He was serving as a rebel commander of Youth of Sunnah Forces and later switched sides and ...
Syria's brutal civil war rekindled suddenly after 13 years, with rebels staging a shock offensive that forced long-time dictator Bashar al-Assad to flee to Russia.
Syrian rebels battled government forces for control of the key city of Homs on Saturday and advanced towards the capital Damascus. Since announcing its independence from al-Qaeda, the group’s ...
The Syrian civil war is an ongoing multi-sided conflict in Syria involving various state-sponsored and non-state actors.In March 2011, popular discontent with the rule of Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring protests in the region.
The Southern Front is an alliance of over 50 rebel groups, ranging from secularist to moderately religious. [11] Bashar al-Zoubi, head of the Yarmouk Army, said to the BBC in 2014 that the groups or factions of the Southern Front are militarily coordinated by a moving command center with a unified leadership but with no overall commander and no centralised command—which is contradictory.