Who Is Supplying Weapons To The Syrian Rebels?

What appear to be M60 recoilless guns in Syrian videos posted to Youtube.

Saudis Step Up Help for Rebels in Syria With Croatian Arms -- New York Times

Saudi Arabia has financed a large purchase of infantry weapons from Croatia and quietly funneled them to antigovernment fighters in Syria in a drive to break the bloody stalemate that has allowed President Bashar al-Assad to cling to power, according to American and Western officials familiar with the purchases.

The weapons began reaching rebels in December via shipments shuttled through Jordan, officials said, and have been a factor in the rebels’ small tactical gains this winter against the army and militias loyal to Mr. Assad.

The arms transfers appeared to signal a shift among several governments to a more activist approach to assisting Syria’s armed opposition, in part as an effort to counter shipments of weapons from Iran to Mr. Assad’s forces. The weapons’ distribution has been principally to armed groups viewed as nationalist and secular, and appears to have been intended to bypass the jihadist groups whose roles in the war have alarmed Western and regional powers.

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More News On The Weapons And Support That The Syrian Rebels Are Receiving

Saudi Arabia's Buying Yugoslavian Guns for the Syrian Rebels -- Atlantic Wire
Weapons From the Former Yugoslavia Spread Through Syria’s War -- At War/New York Times
Heavy weapons flow to moderate Syrian rebels -- Herald.net/Washington Post
Saudis buying Balkan arms for Syrian rebels: report -- Global Post/AFP
Saudi Arabia arming Syrian rebels with Croatian weapons: report -- Global Post
In Sea Change, Saudis Arming Syrian Opposition -- Newser
Croatia provided arms for Syrian rebels via Saudi Arabia -- Croatian Times
Croatia selling weapons to Syrian rebels -- b92
Saudi Arabia Arming Syrian Rebels With Croatian Weapons Since December 2012 (VIDEO) -- Huffington Post/AFP
Whose arms are they anyway? The smuggling routes of Syria supply international weaponry to rebels -- Al Bawaba
Foreign powers send heavy weapons to 'moderate' Syrian rebels - report -- RT
Syrian Rebels Supplied Arms By United States And Its Allies – OpEd -- Shabbir H. Kazmi, Eurasia Review
Report: Outside powers renew arms shipments to Syrian rebels -- Israel Hayom
Insight: Syria rebels bolstered by new arms but divisions remain -- Reuters
New arms deepen Syria conflict -- Financial Times
How did Syria’s rebels get their hands on powerful new weapons? -- Stephen Starr, The Globe and Mail
The Case for Arming Syrian Rebels -- Rachel Kleinfeld, Wall Street Journal