"Syrian deputy foreign minister Faisal Mekdad is flanked by police officers after the second round of talks between Syrian government and opposition at UN HQ in Geneva. Photograph: Salvatore di Nolfi/EPA"
NYT video .. Syrian opposition, chiefly 4 groups .. FSA .. Islamist groups who reject both the FSA and a 3rd group .. AQ inspired 'violent jihad' Islamists .. and Kurdish fighters who mostly defend their territories and want an autonomous zone as Kurdistan in Iraq .. it serves a decent review .. http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000002694572/the-syrian-opposition-explained.html
mostly all men, of course, some fighting for good reason, others for stupid reasons such as waging violent jihad because it's 'the best ever feeling' .. of course, it's more complicated than just the 4 groups as there are '100s, if not 1000s of individual rebel brigades fighting across the country .. which fall into 1 of the 4 groups' ..