The Royal Navy has four main fighting arms: ships, submarines, the Fleet Air Arm and the Royal Marines.
The warning was quickly rejected by the Free Syrian Army, the rebels' main fighting organization, which has sought to distance itself from the jihadist groups.
Accordingly, the Army's main fighting unit in the area — War Squadron, four hundred men spread out over four bases — works side by side with Afghan soldiers and strives to engage local leaders.
Syrian rebels fighting the regime of Bashar al-Assad have withdrawn all their main fighting units from their stronghold in the Salahedin area of Aleppo, after heavy shelling by government forces.
Accordingly, the Army's main fighting unit in the area War Squadron, four hundred men spread out over four bases works side by side with Afghan soldiers and strives to engage local leaders.
As has been reported for months, al-Qaeda offshoots in the Syrian opposition like Jabhat al-Nusra are the rebels' main fighting force.
ISIS members are a minority but the main fighting force, he said.
For now, the main fighting is being done by soldiers from the 11th Iraqi Army Division.
The Army forces have sought to adjust since the main fighting stopped.
The area where he said the helicopter crashed was not in the vicinity of most of the main fighting.
The main fighting was centered in the Qlaiaat area, in the hills 20 miles northeast of here.
