The Syrian Armed Forces Seven Years into the Conflict: From a Regular Army to Volunteer Corps

A large number of structures scattered and not fully controlled by Damascus lays a time bomb under Syria RIAC Working Paper “Proposals on Building a Regional Security System in West Asia and North Africa” The most serious ... ... conglomerate of Iraqi Shiite groups associated with Asaib Ahl al-Haq . Units that are directly subordinated to the Iranian command of Al-Quds also operate in Syria. These include, in particular, the Fatemiyoun Division recruited from Afghan Shiites (which number ...