‘Divisions among foreign-sponsored opposition groups in Syria have further widened as senior militant commanders sever their ties with the Syrian National Coalition (SNC).

General Salim Idris, the former commander of the anti-Damascus militancy group called Free Syrian Army (FSA), announced on Wednesday his departure from the coalition along with more than a dozen other fellow militant commanders.

Speaking in a video statement, flanked by several top field commanders of the FSA Supreme Military Council (SMC), Idris said, “We… have been asked to start working on a total restructuring of the SMC.”’

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