military official

Salim Idriss

سليم إدريس

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The West's General: Salim Idriss and the Impossible Command of the FSA

Defected in 2012, became the FSA's commander and the West's public face for Syria's armed opposition — then was quietly replaced when the strategy collapsed and Islamist factions seized Western-supplied weapons.

Biography

Salim Idris is a Syrian military officer and former rebel leader during the Syrian Civil War. He served as the minister of defense of the Syrian Interim Government and chief of staff of the Supreme Military Council (SMC) of the Syrian National Army, a Syrian rebel faction.

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Born:1957

Place:Syria

Nationality:Syrian