I'm happy to have put him on igno... but from reading your posts, Outlaw, it seems he's claiming that insurgents are 'hiding between civilians'.

This is a typical idiotic narrative about this war - in complete ignorace of the fact that the insurgents are Syrians, and fighting for safety of their families and homes.

After all, nearly 70% of the ex-Syrian Arab Army (and other of regime's military branches) have defected in 2011-2012 period. Practically all of FSyA, nearly all of IF and AAS units are led by officers and NCOs that defected. Each of them has a wife and kids. If they make up only 50% of the insurgency, and each has a wife and two kids only (most have more kids, but well...), we're talking about 400,000 people.

Where should they all go? And why should they leave their homes?

And where should 13 million internally displaced Syrians - majority of whom fled from regime's, IRGC's, and now Russian terror - go?