{"id":2723,"date":"2013-02-11T07:59:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T07:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2013-02-11T07:59:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T07:59:44","slug":"amira-free-syrian-armys-first-top-female-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2013\/02\/11\/2723\/","title":{"rendered":"Amira, Free Syrian Army\u2019s first top female commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news2\/shami-general-doughter.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>A Syrian thirty-year-old woman and daughter of a former military security general became the first Syrian female to hold a leading post in the Free Syrian Army.   <!--more-->  <br \/>Amira al-Aarour\u2019s military experience working with her father helped her join the FSA ranks where she currently holds the post of the deputy commander of the FSA\u2019s brigade in Aleppo. <\/p>\n<p>Aarour said she received military experience when she was just a child as she accompanied her father to several training camps where he taught her how to shoot. <\/p>\n<p>She also said that at first, men among the FSA found it difficult to accept taking orders from a woman, adding, however, that with time they accepted the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Several Syrian women had joined the rebels fighting the regime of Bashar al-Assad such as engineer Thouwyba Kanfani who traveled from Canada to Syria to fight Assad\u2019s forces and who had announced that she joined the rebels via a<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/vod.alarabiya.net\/2013\/02\/57252d275e90e53cb33c556b8a5db21e.flv\">video<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source:<em><strong> Alrabiya<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Syrian thirty-year-old woman and daughter of a former military security general became the first Syrian female to hold a leading post in the Free Syrian Army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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