Syria - FSA Front Line (October 2012)

by baynetna

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The Free Syrian Army (Arabic: الجيش السوري الحر‎, Al-Jayڑ Al-Suri Al-Ḥurr) is the main armed opposition group operating in Syria that has been active during the Syrian civil war. Composed of defected Syrian Armed Forces personnel and volunteers, its formation was announced on 29 July 2011 in a video released on the internet by a uniformed group of deserters from the Syrian military who called upon members of the Syrian army to defect and join them. The leader of the group, who identified himself as Colonel Riad al-Asaad, announced that the Free Syrian Army would work with demonstrators to bring down the system, and declared that all security forces attacking civilians are justified targets. The FSA was recently recognized by the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change,] however the FSA dismissed the NCC's declaration stating "this opposition is just the other face of the same coin"