'They see it as a chance to build a future, some people for the money, others think they can start a life there,' one source in Syria told Newsweek.
The U.S. has largely ceased backing insurgents to oust Assad, but continues to impose sweeping sanctions against him over allegations of war crimes. Since 2015, around the same time that Moscow intervened directly on Damascus' behalf, the Pentagon has supported a Kurdish-led formation known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, which holds up to a third of the country in its northeast, where it opposes both the rebels and the government, despite repeated attempts to reconcile with the latter.
Another U.S.-backed unit in Syria, the rebel Maghawir al-Thawra, which is active in a 55-kilometer zone declared off-limits by the Pentagon to other powers in the southern desert, also issued a statement last week, in which they dispelled"false news" that claimed it sent"a number of our forces to participate in the Ukraine war." However, along with many anti-government factions, the group has expressed contempt for Moscow's campaign against Kyiv.
"Moreover, like in Libya, most Syrian rebels who went there for Turkey ended up in Italy," the politician said."They wanted to go to Europe. Many of them will escape from Poland to Germany now." A man rides a motorcycle past cement blocks bearing flags of Ukraine and the Syrian opposition with inscriptions, one in Cyrillic which reads"Slava Ukraini" , a Ukrainian national salute, and another in Arabic which reads"Al-Majd Li Souriya Al-Hurra" , near the Syrian rebel-held city of al-Bab in the northern Aleppo province, on February 28.Other Syria-focused monitors shed a light on a wider movement gaining momentum among those who have fought both for and against Damascus.
"But until this moment no one has left," the organization added,"and the jihadi fighters are of Chechen nationality from those who are in Idlib." Chechens also appear to be divided in their loyalties, as others from the majority-Muslim southern Russian republic in the Caucasus have entered the conflict in Ukraine on behalf of Moscow and its local ally, Ramzan Kadyrov.
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