In April 2013, the US introduced it would transfer $123 million in nonlethal assist to Syrian rebels by means of the Supreme Military Council led by defected basic Salim Idris, the then Chief of Staff of FSA. Friends of Syria Group that experienced pledged non-navy help to militant rebels. Idriss reported. "Now it is pretty important for them to be unified. But unifying them in a fashion to work like a regular military is however complicated.