Salim Idriss, the former head of the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA), has been sacked due to the “paralysis within the military command over the past months.”
According to a statement from the militant command’s Supreme Military Council (SMC), Brig. Gen. Idriss is to be replaced by Brig. Gen. Abdul-Ilah Bashir Al-Noeimi, a rebel field commander in southern Syria.
Noeimi is the chief of staff of the SMC of the Free Syrian Army.
Noeimi comes from a large Arab tribe called the al-Noeim. The tribe is spread is prominent in the villages of the Golan Heights and the Quneitra countryside.
Prior to the Syrian war, Noeimi served as a career officer in the Syrian Army.
Noeimi defected from the Syrian Army on 13 July 2012 alongside several other officers from the Noeimi tribe, including Adnan al-Rafi, Saleh al-Hammada al-Noeimi, and Saleh Bashir al-Noeimi.
He was later appointed chief of the FSA military council in Quneitra.
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