Saber Safar Fares () is a Syrian military officer who served as a colonel in the Free Syrian Army during the Syrian Civil War. Fares defected from the Syrian Armed Forces to the FSA in 2013 and founded the Hamza Division. Beginning in 2015, he held the position of overall commander in the First Army of the Southern Front and was reportedly the highest ranking FSA officer in southern Syria.
History In August 2015, Saber Safar survived an assassination attempt in the 1st Army headquarters in the town of Abtaa.
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