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  2. Christian militias in Iraq and Syria - Wikipedia

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    The Syriac Military Council, a Syriac-Assyrian Christian militia allied with the Kurdish-majority People's Protection Units (YPG), is the largest Christian militia in the Syrian civil war. By comparison with some of the other armed groups in Syria, Christian militias are small, and dependent on the Syrian government or the Autonomous ...

  3. Christians protest in Syrian capital after burning of ... - AOL

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    In control of most of Syria now is the Islamist armed rebel group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, led by Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed Al Jolani – a man who had established al Qaeda’s ...

  4. Syria is free of its dictator. The rebels’ biggest challenge ...

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    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 ...

  5. Guardians of the Dawn - Wikipedia

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    Following the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2012, several Christian militias were formed to fight for the Syrian government against insurgents. These groups were generally organized as self-defense units, as Syrian rebels began to attack Christian religious sites and kidnap Christians for ransom soon after the insurgency gained momentum.

  6. FACT CHECK: Ben Shapiro Didn’t Say That Syrian Christians ...

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    Fact Check: The regime of long-time Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad was overthrown, with power being handed over to the Salvation Government, which is led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), according to ...

  7. Armed factions in the Syrian civil war - Wikipedia

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    However, by September 2014 the Free Syrian Army was joining an alliance and common front with Kurdish militias including the YPG to fight IS. [ 68 ] In December 2015, according to the American Institute for the Study of War , groups identifying as FSA were still present around Aleppo and Hama and in southern Syria , and the FSA was still "the ...

  8. Turkish drones kill 3 in an attack on a local Christian ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  9. Popular Committees (Syria) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...