Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — The Western-backed Free Syrian Army has been gutted by Islamist splinter militias. Rebel sources said the FSA in northern Syria has been decimated by defections and attacks by Islamist militias. The sources said Supreme Military Council Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Salim Idris fled from Syria to Turkey amid an […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Sunni rebels have been bolstered by the arrival of scores of Chechen fighters in the war against Syrian President Bashar Assad. Islamist sources said Qatar and Saudi Arabia have financed the recruitment of fighters from the autonomous Russian province of Chechnya. The sources said most of the Chechens were veterans […]
