In addition, the drive by Turkish forces and their Free Syrian Army proxies in northeastern Syria against Kurdish enclaves has drawn off elements of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces(SDF) to defend against Turkey's"Operation Olive Branch," he said.
By then, the Sunni armies of Al Qaeda in Iraq were crossing the border from Iraq into Syria and joining forces with the squadrons of deserters from the Free Syrian Army, many of them trained and armed by the U. S.
The Free Syrian Army's(FSA) and its component Syria Revolutionaries Front(SRF), backed by key American neo-conservatives like Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, as well as neocon non-profits like the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, maintain close links with ISIL and al-Nusra.
The[operation] process, which began yesterday and started to be implemented today, is continuing together with the Free Syrian Army without any problems,” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in his address at a ruling Justice and Development Party(AKP) strategic planning camp on Oct. 8.
The up-armoured BMP-1 VBIED'225' below would be used against such a joint Free Syrian and Turkish Army position near al-Bab, which it managed to enter despite the presence of sand barriers erected precisely to prevent enemy vehicles from doing so.
According to military sources, the Americans, who do not want to put troops on the Syrian soil or arm rebels in part controlled by radical Islamists form quietly for several months in a training camp set up at the border Jordanian-Syrian fighters ASL, the Free Syrian Army, handpicked.
The magazine reported some 200 men received such training over the past three months with US plans to provide training for a total 1,200 members of the Free Syrian Army in two camps in the south and the east of Jordan.
Abu Omar, a Free Syrian Army commander, told dpa from Aleppo:"We are now adopting new military tactics, which proved very successful on Thursday and we managed to down planes of the regime forces.".
It reported that around 200 men had received training over the previous three months in Jordan and that the Americans planned to train a total of 1,200 members of the Free Syrian Army in two camps; one in the south and the other in the eastern part of the country.
In November 2011 TheTelegraph reported that Belhadj, acting as head of the Tripoli Military Council,''met with Free Syrian Army[FSA] leaders in Istanbul and on the border with Turkey'' in an effort by the new Libyan government to provide money and weapons to the growing insurgency in Syria.
Although the war is being sold to the public as a Sunni-Shiite conflict, so-called Sunni groups like ISIS, the Syrian al-Qaida affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra(the Nusra Front) and even the“moderate” Free Syrian Army have indiscriminately targeted Syria's Sunnis, Shiites, Christians and Jews.
Although the exact story on how Jaish al-Islam acquired Iranian Zelzal-2s remains unclear, these artillery rockets were believed to have been captured in Syria's Qalamoun region by elements of the Free Syrian Army in 2013, which subsequently sold the Zelzal-2s(thought to total at least five in number) to Jaish al-Islam.
Over the past year, the Free Syrian Army(FSA), once regarded as a force of moderate, secular democratic reformers, has partnered with- some members have even defected to- various moderate and radical Islamist groups, including the al Qaeda- linked al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham(ISIS).
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