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Fighters in southern Syria who helped topple President Bashar al-Assad are reluctant to disarm and disband as ordered by the country's new rulers, their spokesman told AFP.

Bosra (Syria) (AFP) – Fighters in southern Syria who helped topple President Bashar al-Assad are reluctant to disarm and disband as ordered by the country's new rulers, their spokesman told AFP.

Fighters in southern Syria who helped topple President Bashar ... he told AFP in Daraa's town of Bosra. "We can integrate the defence ministry as a pre-organised entity... We have weapons, heavy ...