The opposition factions are experiencing major changes in alliances among them, which makes the situation more complicated. SOURCE: http://http://www.fnotw.org/Article/Full/4857 Syria (FNOTW) -- While the world is focusing on Syria's chemical weapon, many changes are taking place on the opposition side. Alliances among various opposition factions are being shifted, making the situation more complicated and probably abating the opposition. On September 24, thirteen of the rebel groups withdrew from Syrian National Coalition (SNC), an organization formed in Qatar that has brought together dozens of opposition groups and dissidents with the aim of becoming Syria's transitional government once the President Bashar al-Assad's regime is falled- with the intention to form a new opposition coalition that would set Sharia, a so-called systematic body of Islamic laws, as the only source of legislation in a 'new' Syria. These groups consist of Tawheed Brigage, and the al-Nusra front, with tens of thousands of fighters. More importantly, it includes numerous factions of FSA, Free Syrian Army. Meanwhile, on September 29, some other rebel factions from the outskirts of Damascus formed a new body called the Islam Army and regarded themselves as religiously moderate. This shifting alliances has made The Free Syrian Army increasingly splintered and the SCN's influence wane. Now, the SNC doesn't seem to have any sway at all over the armed opposition. The war was initiated by the conflict between the government and the citizens. Even though the initial intention of the opposition side was to get rid of the regime of current President Bashar al-Assad who has delivered fallaciously violent and aggressive treatment to his citizens, the basis of the war is at risk to be wrongly transformed into the war to gain power, even among opposition factions, and, what is worse, unnecessarily giving way for terrorism and extremism to get in and worsen the long-suffering country of Syria.
