Welcome to our video “Towards Evidence-based Arms Control and Disarmament” prepared for the Geneva Peace Week by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), and the Small Arms Survey. Our world is severely hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
In autumn 2017, the Council of the Syrian Islamic Scholars devised an initiative to unite all groups of the Syrian moderate opposition into the Syrian National Army (SNA), which was supposed to become FSA 2.0.
Northeast Syria (NES) is fragmented under the control of different powers that are all seeking to gain the support of the local Arab tribes.
Moderate Syrian opposition includes some natives from Russia’s North Caucasus, although they are a minority.