Sounds like a plan. Syria needs soldiers since many have been killed and many have deserted.
Iran recruiting Afghan refugees for Assad?
Aug 27, 2015 |
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The fate of two brothers from Kabul, one grievously wounded, the other killed fighting in Syria, spotlights Iran’s covert but active recruitment of Afghan refugees to buttress President Bashar al-Assad’s steadily depleting forces.
Shia Iran, Mr Assad’s key military and financial patron, denies enlisting Afghan mercenaries to fight alongside Syrian forces in the four-year conflict against Opposition Sunni rebels that has left more than 240,000 people dead and millions displaced. But interviews with Afghan fighters and relatives of combatants killed in Syria point to a vigorous — and sometimes coerced — recruitment drive of Shia Hazara refugees by Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Cor-ps propping up Mr Assad’s floundering regime.
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Iran recruiting Afghan refugees for Assad?
Aug 27, 2015 |
|
The fate of two brothers from Kabul, one grievously wounded, the other killed fighting in Syria, spotlights Iran’s covert but active recruitment of Afghan refugees to buttress President Bashar al-Assad’s steadily depleting forces.
Shia Iran, Mr Assad’s key military and financial patron, denies enlisting Afghan mercenaries to fight alongside Syrian forces in the four-year conflict against Opposition Sunni rebels that has left more than 240,000 people dead and millions displaced. But interviews with Afghan fighters and relatives of combatants killed in Syria point to a vigorous — and sometimes coerced — recruitment drive of Shia Hazara refugees by Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Cor-ps propping up Mr Assad’s floundering regime.
Continue reading at:
Iran recruiting Afghan refugees for Assad? | The Asian Age?