The Syrian opposition’s so-called Interim Government” has announced that it will soon open a military academy in northern Syria in a bid to end fighting between rebel groups which are nominally part of the Turkish-backed “Syrian National Army”. The Syrian Interim Government’s Defence Minister, Hassan Al-Hamada, has visited the site of the proposed academy in Afrin, which was captured by pro-Turkish Syrian rebels from Kurdish-led forces in 2018. In a statement, the Interim Government’s Defence Ministry said that “most of the stages of setting up the buildings and facilities of the academy have …