Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Free Syrian Army (Arabic: الجيش السوري الحر, al-Jaysh as-Sūrī al-Ḥurr, FSA) is a group of defected Syrian Armed Forces officers and soldiers, founded during the Syrian Civil War on 29 July 2011 by seven or eight Syrian officers who said their goal was to bring down the Assad government. 90% of the FSA consists of Sunni Muslims, but a small minority are (Shia) Alawites, Druze and possibly Palestinian.After the Free Syrian Army merged with the Free Officers Movement (Arabic: حركة الضباط الأحرار, Ḥarakat aḑ-Ḑubbāṭ al-Aḥrār) in September 2011 The Wall Street Journal considered the FSA the main military defectors group.Between July 2012 and July 2013, ill-discipline and infighting weakened FSA, while jihadist groups entered northern Syria and became more effective. Since February 2014, Abdul-Ilah al-Bashir is the appointed Chief of Staff and leader of the FSA. In September 2014 a coalition called 'Supreme Military Council of Syria', which included the FSA but also moderate Muslim rebel groups, allied with the predominantly Christian Syriac Military Council coalition to fight both the Assad government and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ISIS, IS). In June 2015, the International Business Times stated that the FSA had \"all but dissipated\", and that the remnants of the FSA had joined the coalitions of the Army of Conquest and the Southern Front."@en }
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- Free_Syrian_Army abstract "The Free Syrian Army (Arabic: الجيش السوري الحر, al-Jaysh as-Sūrī al-Ḥurr, FSA) is a group of defected Syrian Armed Forces officers and soldiers, founded during the Syrian Civil War on 29 July 2011 by seven or eight Syrian officers who said their goal was to bring down the Assad government. 90% of the FSA consists of Sunni Muslims, but a small minority are (Shia) Alawites, Druze and possibly Palestinian.After the Free Syrian Army merged with the Free Officers Movement (Arabic: حركة الضباط الأحرار, Ḥarakat aḑ-Ḑubbāṭ al-Aḥrār) in September 2011 The Wall Street Journal considered the FSA the main military defectors group.Between July 2012 and July 2013, ill-discipline and infighting weakened FSA, while jihadist groups entered northern Syria and became more effective. Since February 2014, Abdul-Ilah al-Bashir is the appointed Chief of Staff and leader of the FSA. In September 2014 a coalition called 'Supreme Military Council of Syria', which included the FSA but also moderate Muslim rebel groups, allied with the predominantly Christian Syriac Military Council coalition to fight both the Assad government and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ISIS, IS). In June 2015, the International Business Times stated that the FSA had \"all but dissipated\", and that the remnants of the FSA had joined the coalitions of the Army of Conquest and the Southern Front.".