Despite Turkish training and weapons, Syria's military capabilities will remain limited amid the government's reliance on loyalists and efforts to consolidate power, slowing the integration of minority militias into the Defense Ministry and incentivizing the government to reach a comprehensive security agreement with Israel. Over the past several months, the interim Syrian government has taken steps to rebuild its army after President Ahmad al-Sharaa formally dissolved the remnants of the Assad-era military structure in late January 2025, ousting remaining leaders loyal to the former regime and calling for all nonstate armed militias to dissolve and merge under the Ministry of Defense. As of June, the nascent army had reportedly recruited around half of its goal of 200,000 men, mostly from al-Sharaa's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, as well as allied rebel groups that supported the HTS's overthrow of former President Bashar al Assad in December 2024.