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An Assyrian Christian church in Alqosh. A number of Christian militias in Iraq and Syria have been formed since the start of the Syrian Civil War and in the 2013-2017 War.The militias are composed of fighters mainly from the Assyrian but also include Arab and Armenian Christian communities in Syria, and Assyrians in Iraq have formed militias in the north to protect Assyrian communities, towns ...
The Syrian government was also interested in arming Christian militias, as these were generally loyal and relieved the hard-pressed Syrian Army. Christian units played a major role in the fighting for the Qalamoun Mountains 2013–14, where several important Christian centers are located, such as the towns of Maarounah and Yabroud, as well as ...
In the Jdeideh quarter, the Christian militia was allegedly the first to fight against rebels. [7] The day after a bombing killed four government officials, including the Greek Orthodox Christian Syrian Minister of Defence, General Dawoud Rajiha , it was reported by residents that at least 200 AK-47s were handed out in a Christian neighborhood ...
Turkish drone strikes in northeastern Syria on Wednesday killed at least three members of a local Christian force and wounded others, including civilians, a Kurdish official and a Syrian ...
Thousands across Syria have taken to the streets to celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime and the end to a catastrophic civil war.. The rallies will see thousands marking an end ...
The group he leads is among the more organized of the many rebel factions who took part in the offensive, having spent the past few years governing 4 million people in Idlib through a semi ...
On 27 November 2024, a coalition of Syrian revolutionary factions called the Military Operations Command [45] led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and supported by allied Turkish-backed groups [46] [47] [48] in the Syrian National Army (SNA) launched an offensive against the Ba'athist regime's armed forces in Idlib, Aleppo and Hama Governorates in Syria.
The U.S. carried out an airstrike on a weapons warehouse in eastern Syria used by Iranian-backed militias, in retaliation for what has been a growing number of attacks on bases housing U.S. troops ...