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The Syrian Arab Army (SyAA or SAA) [a] was the land force branch of the Syrian Armed Forces. [5] It was the dominant military service of the four uniformed services, controlling the most senior posts in the armed forces, and had the greatest manpower, approximately 80 percent of the combined services.
By 2014, the number of defecting officers had reached approximately 170,000, from different ranks. They formed the Free Syrian Army on 29 July 2011 (interview with Riad Al-Asaad - the founder and leader of the Free Syrian Army), and at the beginning of the conflict they depended on light weapons. The arming of the Free Syrian Army began in mid ...
DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Israel pounded Syrian army bases on Tuesday in strikes it says aim to keep weapons from falling into hostile hands, but denied its forces had advanced into Syria beyond a ...
Anti-government fighters stand atop a Syrian army jet after they took over a military air base near the central city of Hama on Dec. 6, 2024. (Omar Haj Karour / Getty Images)
A video shared on X claims to show Syrian Arab Army (SAA) paratroopers conducting jumps to fight Syrian rebels. Verdict: Misleading The video is from 2023 and shows training exercises, not the SAA ...
The Syrian National Army (SNA; [28] Arabic: الجيش الوطني السوري, romanized: al-Jayš al-Waṭanī as-Sūrī), also known as the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (TFSA), [29] [30] [31] is a coalition of armed Syrian opposition groups that participates in the Syrian civil war.
A view shows a damaged poster of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo after the Syrian army said that dozens of its soldiers had been killed in a major attack by rebels who swept into the ...
In February 2011, after years of Internet censorship, Syrian censors lifted a ban on Facebook and YouTube. [2] In April 2011, only days after anti-regime protests escalated in Syria, Syrian Electronic Army emerged on Facebook. [2] On May 5, 2011 the Syrian Computer Society registered SEA’s website (syrian-es.com). [2]