Syria's new leadership has seized abandoned military housing lived in by former high-ranking Republican Guard soldiers who fled following the ousting of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, but ...

who is the commander of the Syrian Republican Guard (an elite military unit dedicated to protecting the Syrian authorities), as well as two other generals, whose names were not specified.

Later, the Republican Guard command reported that the army had been forced to retreat from Aleppo to regroup its units and prepare for a counterattack. On December 5, the Syrian command announced ...