HTS has long had a strained relationship with the other major rebel bloc in Syria, the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army (SNA). The SNA's focus during the recent offensive has largely aligned with ...

The Syrian army - which is largely made up of conscripts - might have lost the war years ago if outside forces had not come to Assad's aid. Soldiers are underpaid, under-equipped and often have ...

The new interim Syrian government says it will hunt down and punish senior security officials and others, but concern is ...

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Stephen Cook, a Middle East expert at the Council of Foreign Relations, told The Telegraph that the bulk of the Syrian army was made up of conscripts who “did not want to be there”.

Ahram Online spoke to Geir Pedersen, UN special envoy to Syria, who draws a road map that identifies the obstacles and ...

Young men in particular are concerned that they will be targeted by forced conscription into the army. Several recounted stories of young men who had returned to Syria only to get drafted and die ...

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Syrian security forces are conducting a security ... the transitional government has been registering former conscripts and soldiers and asking them to hand over their weapons.