New Syrian Army

The New Syrian Army (جيش سوريا الجديد), or NSA, is a group of Syrian Arab Army defectors established during the Syrian Civil War. Founded in November 2015, they seek to expel the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant from eastern Syria. It claims that it had received training and advanced weaponry from the Authenticity and Development Front and CIA.

Jaysh Usud al-Sharqiya, another Authenticity and Development Front subgroup that operated in eastern Syria, merged into the New Syrian Army.

Operational history
On 16 November, the NSA was deployed at the Tanf border crossing with or without USA aerial support. No further information was given.