SYRIA: Fifty Syrian Democratic Forces soldiers complete training course at Martyr Akkad Academy

HASAKAH, North and East Syria – The training course of fifty fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) ended at the Academy of Martyr Akkad Mar-Bisho which belongs to SDF co-founder Syriac Military Council (Mawthbo Folhoyo Suryoyo, MFS). The 45-day training course was named in honor of Martyr Arios Hasakah. The cadets received training in special methods of warfare, the use of military weapons, in addition to receiving political science and war theory classes.

The military graduation ceremony was attended by SDF and MFS officers and members of civil and military institutions of the Autonomous Administration. Leader Orom Suryoyo of the Syriac Military Council congratulated the cadets, wished them victory, and noted that this training enhanced the combatants’ experience and wished the class success in their military duties.

“On the second anniversary of the Turkish occupation of the cities of Rish Ayno (Ras al-Ayn) and Tal Abyad, we commend that our training course will increase our resolve to end the occupation, restore stability and peace to our areas and return the people,” said Orom Suryoyo. He praised the newly graduated soldiers in their path of the martyrs for the liberation of all the land. Then the graduates took their military oaths and the ceremony ended with chants glorifying the martyrs for their heroic deeds.

The Syriac Military Council, co-founder of the Syrian Democratic Forces, played a key role in the defense of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, especially in the Khabur Valley, against the Islamic State and since October 2019 against the Turkish army and their proxy Syrian National Army.

To this day, the MFS has a strong presence in Tel Tamr in the Khabur and along the lines of contact. Attempts to make the area of the Khabur Valley a separate canton for the Syriac (Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean) people have so far been unsuccessful.