What Syria’s Secret Police Saw as the Regime Crumbled
Hastily abandoned documents show how the fallen government’s vast intelligence apparatus struggled to comprehend and stop the ...
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Southern rebels loom large as Syria’s new rulers try to form a national army
At one former Syrian army site, a fighter with the Free Syrian Army, the main faction in the area, stood guard in jeans and a camouflage shirt. Other local fighters showed off a site where they were ...
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Inside a Syrian 'reconciliation centre' where Assad's soldiers give up their weapons
On the night of 6 December, Mohammed el-Nadaf, a soldier in the Syrian army, was at his position in ... I took off my uniform, left my weapons, and started to make my way to my village in Tartous ...
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Demoralised and abandoned by allies: why Assad’s army failed to fight in Syria
Reuters journalists entering Syria on Sunday found army uniforms still strewn across Damascus streets. The corruption and poor morale went up through the ranks. Many midranking officers had been ...