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The Syrian National Army (SNA; [7] Arabic: الجيش الوطني السوري, romanized: al-Jayš al-Waṭanī as-Sūrī), also known as the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (TFSA), [b] [30] [31] [32] was a coalition of armed Syrian opposition groups that participate in the Syrian civil war.
The Free Syrian Army (FSA; Arabic: الجيش السوري الحر, romanized: al-jaysh as-Sūrī al-ḥur) is a big-tent coalition of decentralized Syrian opposition rebel groups in the Syrian civil war [39] [40] founded on 29 July 2011 by Colonel Riad al-Asaad and six officers who defected from the Syrian Armed Forces.
Syrian opposition activists convened in Istanbul in May 2011 to discuss regime change, [166] and Turkey hosted the head of the Free Syrian Army, Colonel Riad al-Asaad. [167] Turkey became increasingly hostile to the Assad government's policies and encouraged reconciliation among dissident factions.
The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army, which is part of the rebel coalition that took control of most of Aleppo city, said Sunday it had seized control of the city of Tal Rifaat and the towns of Ain ...
The rebel forces advancing on Hama have included a Turkey-backed insurgent coalition called the Syrian National Army, which holds a strip of territory along the Syrian-Turkish frontier, rebel ...
The Turkish Armed Forces and its ally the Syrian National Army have occupied [7] [8] areas of northern Syria since August 2016, during the Syrian civil war.Though these areas nominally acknowledge a government affiliated with the Syrian opposition, in practice they constitute a separate proto-state [9] under the dual authority of decentralized native local councils and Turkish military ...
After an initial retreat, loyalist forces are regrouping, with reports of Syrian army units and Iranian-backed Iraqi militias mobilizing toward Hama to stay the opposition’s advance.
This strategic plan aimed to create a 30-kilometer deep buffer zone in territories controlled by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had emphasized the operation's connection to national security concerns, specifically citing activities of Kurdish militant groups in Turkey and Syria. [22]