Violence in Syria shows difficulty unifying the armed forces
The new president of Syria has often spoken of the urgency to merge the numerous armed groups that fought to overthrow the strong man Bashar al-Assad in a unified national army.But the spasm of violence that broke out this month in the north -western Syria, who killed hundreds of civilians, clarified how far that goal is. Instead, he showed the lack of control of the government on the forces nominally under his command and his inability to supervise other armed groups, the experts said.The explosion began when the insurgents linked to the extracting dictatorship of Assad attacked the government forces on March 6 in several sites in two coastal provinces that are the heart of the Alawita Syrian minority. The government responded with a wide mobilization of its security forces, that other ar...