Or the deep state is making crap up, just as they have been repeatedly caught doing ... and Assad’s fighters are mostly Syrians and the insurgents are mostly foreigners.
Maybe John McBraincancer went over and armed a bunch of Jihadis to try to overthrow the Syrian government at the behest of the New World Order.
There is always an alternate possibility.
More than a billion Muslims. Willing to become a violent jihadi is as common in Islam as becoming born again in Christianity. Are there are just as many sects.
Afghani refugees from Iran fighting for the Syrian army against ISIS. What could go wrong?
There are many Uigurs in Syria - so many that China sent some elite troops to get rid of them before they return.
The Middle East is in the beginning stages of a Sunni-Shai World War.
Nearly every conflict there can be explained by the above statement.
Where Is Assad Getting His Fighters From?
Can’t someone just ask his buddy Senator John (songbird)McCain??
It was the anti-Assad forces that were recruiting foreign fighters.
In any case it made no sense to overthrow Assad, and then turn around and help Iran get a nuke. It makes some sense to remove Assad as part of an overall anti-Iran strategy but under Obama the whole thing was incoherent. And half a million Syrians have died for no particular reason.
But, I see nothing in this article that I would question concerning the makeup of the Syrian Army. I think I read somewhere of some other elements than those mentioned. Afghans and Paks are certainly there. Iran and it's terrorist surrogates are certainly there in huge numbers. 80% is credible from what I have heard.
There is an issue as far as the Allawites are concerned. They were 10% of the population, the casualties among them have been large. They must be hurting on educated support elements. That is as important as the grunts. (cannon fodder doesn't win wars)
I read yesterday that Turkey had their panties tied up in knots over a path opening into Efrin from the South might be resupply and troop movement. Which they said they “could not allow”. smile.
Kurds lives are shaped by being mountain people. They are tough, resourceful, largely self sufficient, and cohesive. I admire how they stepped in and increased food production during the middle of the war allowing for refugees to be fed. It would have been a total humanitarian disaster if they had not. Efrin was one of the major production areas. So was Kobani.
If Assad is smart, he will allow Kurds to be pretty independent and leave them alone. So far I don't see that. If he does not, he will be hit again badly by Turks, that war is not over yet.
Whatever works.
If we don’t like the people helping Assad, perhaps we shouldn’t have triggered a CIVIL WAR there.
https://www.voanews.com/a/xinjiang-to-create-a-border-to-keep-away-militants/4219797.html
“China’s violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang will build a “Great Wall” around its borders to prevent the infiltration of militants from outside the country... Hundreds of people have been killed in Xinjiang in the past few years in violence between Uighurs, a mostly Muslim people who speak a Turkic language, and ethnic majority Han Chinese, especially in the heavily Uighur southern part of Xinjiang.
China blames the violence in Xinjiang on Islamist extremists and separatists, some of whom it says have links to groups outside the country.”
“Welcome to the party”, China.