"A balding man with a grey moustache, General Swaidan, of the Syrian army's 4th Brigade, comes from Latakia (I think he is an Alawite, but he refuses to acknowledge any sect) and claims he has no ceasefires with "terrorists".
The rebel forces in Syria, of course, are almost all Sunni Muslims, and that was the general's point: Syrian Sunnis also fight for the army. And when I did stop at the general's checkpoints and rather cruelly demanded to know their religion, almost all of them were indeed Sunni, some conscripts, many regular soldiers." (thanks Basim)
The rebel forces in Syria, of course, are almost all Sunni Muslims, and that was the general's point: Syrian Sunnis also fight for the army. And when I did stop at the general's checkpoints and rather cruelly demanded to know their religion, almost all of them were indeed Sunni, some conscripts, many regular soldiers." (thanks Basim)
