How Assad's army collapsed in Syria: demoralised conscripts, absent allies
![]() 1810 Friday, 13 December, 2024, 20:25 Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. His army outpost in scrubland near the rebel-held city of Idlib should have had nine soldiers but it just had three, after some had bribed the commanding officers to escape serving, he said. |
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