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Free Syrian Army Rebel Groups Arrested Assad’s Afghan Soldier In Syria
A 45-year-old Afghan man who spent six years of his life in Iranian prisons on drug smuggling charges was released by the authorities in Tehran on the condition that he would go to Syria and join the militias fighting alongside the Syrian army.
The Afghan man who speaks Persian agreed to the offer in exchange for a salary of $600 a month to fight in Syria.
Syrian rebels fighting under the umbrella of the Free Syrian Army in the northern part of Syria have begun kidnapping and arresting President Bashar Assad’s Shiite military recruits from Afghanistan.
Assad has deferred to Iran to help the Syrian regime in its recruitment of Afghan fighters to assist the military on the ground in key battles.
Last week in Aleppo, dozens of regime fighters were killed, the majority of them were Afghans. Now the Afghan recruits are being targeted by the Syrian rebels.
Many other Afghan fighters also met their ends in Syria, either being killed or taken prisoner, like Murtada Hussein, who was captured by rebel battalions in Homs.