- Riyadh’s group does not have its own military presence despite the lie of the Free Army.
- Most of the fronts which the group of Riyadh claims their leadership belong to Al-Nusra Front directly, or where some small groups that belong to Al-Nusra.
- Other than that, the northern area of Syria is controlled by the group of Ahrar Al Sham which belongs directly to Turkey, while a similar area in the countryside of Damascus is controlled by the Army of Islam which belongs to Saudi Arabia.
- In the south, there are remnants of wandering groups between Al-Nusra and ISIS that are operated by the Jordanian and American intelligence.
- The repetitive nominations such as Al Fatih Army and the Southern Front are just signs for Al-Nusra, which the opposition of Riyadh makes use of them by avoiding the scandal and the discovering of its small size, while Al-Nusra front makes use of them by facilitating the efforts of Turkey and Saudi Arabia to promote them as a new name for an acceptable party internationally, in order to avoid falling into the prohibition of considering Al-Nusra as a branch of Al-Qaeda on which the classification of terrorism is applied.
- With the truce and with the exclusion of Al-Nusra, Al-Nusra has hold a deal with the group of Riyadh for including its areas to the truce, in order to benefit from it and from the calm through the nominations of Fatih and the southern fronts, it has put a term for negotiation on Riyadh’s group, it is the exclusiveness of the negotiations to form a transitional ruling body.
- Riyadh’s group went to Geneva without conditions, thus the understanding has fallen and Al-Nusra has started of its resolving.
Translated by Lina Shehadeh,
2016-03-14 | عدد القراءات 5416