began on 23 January 2017. On 31 January 2017, Lt. Col. Fares Bayoush resigned from his positions in the Northern Division and the Free Idlib Army, citing foreign fighters and jihadist flags in Idlib. On 10 April 2022, Bayoush, speaking from Turkey, called Russian Army General Aleksandr Dvornikov, who commanded the Russian military intervention in Syria and was appointed commander of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, a war criminal. Bayoush said Dvornikov utilized scorched earth policy in Syria and expected him to do the same in Ukraine. See also Hassan Hamada List of Syrian defectors References Defectors to the Free Syrian Army Syrian Air Force personnel 1970 births Syrian Sunni Muslims Living people People from Idlib Governorate