The Syrian Armed Forces Seven Years into the Conflict: From a Regular Army to Volunteer Corps
... him to the conditions of the conflict within the country, a conflict for which they were wholly unprepared. In particular, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) was dominated exclusively by heavy armoured and mechanized infantry divisions. There was an overabundance ... ... 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 ...
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