Syrian Coalition Calls for Arming the FSA to Counter ISIS & Assad Terror

Press Release Original in arabic

Syrian Coalition

May 28, 2016

The Syrian Coalition calls upon the United Nations, the UN Security Council, and governments of friendly countries to provide urgent and immediate protection to civilians in areas under attack by ISIS terrorist group and the murderous Assad regime.

The arming of the Free Syrian Army to counter ISIS and the Assad regime is a must. The fight against terrorism in all its forms cannot achieve its goals in Syria without supporting the FSA, which has proved, before any other group, and on many occasions, that it is the most capable force to protect civilians and defeat terror.

By tightening the siege on the town of Marea, ISIS is following in the footsteps of the Assad regime which uses sieges of towns and cities as a weapon of war.

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians in dozens of areas across Syria have been enduring unspeakable suffering as a result of suffocating blockades imposed by regime forces for nearly five years. Russian warplanes and the Assad regime’s jets, meanwhile, continue to rain cluster bombs on civilians demonstrating the outrageous harmony between the regime, ISIS and Russia.

May our wounded recover, our detainees be free, and our fallen heroes rest in peace.

Long live Syria and its people, free and with honor.