The Syrian military, once boasting 130,000 personnel in 2020, is now weakened and fragmented, resembling an irregular militia rather than a disciplined fighting force. Low morale, poor wages ...
Following Assad's departure, Ankara has repeatedly insisted that the Kurdish YPG militia must disband, asserting that the group has no place in Syria's future. The change in Syria's leadership has ...
Instead, he's now set his sights on a training camp on the Eritrean border, hoping to join a militia ... A Quagmire of Militias and Irregular Armies." Khartoum has long relied on armed groups ...
Dr Shaza, a 25-year-old medical volunteer, says: "They came and took girls as young as 11 and 12 and rape them. "They bring them back completely destroyed and dump them in the yard of the mosque ...