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Mark Hendrick

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Tuesday 20th October 2015

(9 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Last, but not least, I call Mr Hendrick.

Mark Hendrick Portrait Mr Mark Hendrick (Preston) (Lab/Co-op)
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Will the Foreign Secretary give us his assessment of the current strength, effectiveness and numbers of the Free Syrian Army, a subject on which he has been very quiet recently? We want to get rid of ISIL and Assad, but there has been no mention of the FSA.

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There are many groups, running into the thousands, operating in Syria, and they form together in various alliances and umbrella organisations. The non-ISIL, non-al-Nusra part of the opposition probably has a fighting strength of about 80,000 soldiers deployed across the country. That is my latest estimate.

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