FSA

Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on March 10 criticized the cease-fire Ankara and Moscow brokered last week, saying there is "no truce" but a "cessation of military activities."

FSA fighters are pictured in the back of their trucks as they leave the rebel-held northern Syrian town of Jarabulus.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced the start of Turkish military operation into Syria's Idlib province.

"There is a serious operation in Idlib at the moment, and this will continue," Erdogan announced in a speech Saturday to his party members.

Hepatitis E can cause liver cirrhosis in vulnerable people.

Pork products sold by a leading British supermarket may have infected thousands of people with a form of hepatitis that can cause liver cirrhosis, according to health officials.

The New York Times story of a Syrian political opponent, Radwan Ziadeh, who was denied political asylum in the U.S. (June 24-25), says a lot about the evolution of the Syrian affair.

Turkey will strike the People's Protection Units (YPG), the military wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), if they do not withdraw from Manbij, a former bastion of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) that has been taken over by predominantly Kurdish forces, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu stated on March 2.

The Syrian Army has decided to go ahead with a plan of forming all-women units based on volunteers. The first such unit has been formed in Qamishli, the biggest Kurdish city at the Northeast Syria. The unit has no age limit, and there is already a video released of the volunteers being trained in small arms and checkpoint duties.

Turkish troops and Turkey-backed Syrian rebels are conducting a cleaning up operation against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in al-Bab, which Turkey has been trying to liberate since December 2016 as part of its ongoing Euphrates Shield Operation, officials have said.

The Syrian army signaled on Feb. 2 that it would press on with operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) northeast of Aleppo, near al-Bab, where Turkish forces along with Ankara-backed Syrian rebels have been clashing with the jihadists since December 2016.

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Pro-Assad

Association of Syrians in Bulgaria

Set up in the 1990s, initially for cultural purposes, with ties to the Syrian regime. Many Syrians left it when the protests began.

Anti-Assad

Free Syria Association