Colonel Asaad has boasted of some 15, 000 from an army that numbers around 220, 000.
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Al-Asaad was taken to a local field hospital, where doctors amputated his right foot before transporting him to Turkey.
Al-Iraqiya reporter Asaad Kazem Mohammad and driver Hussein Saleh Kazem were killed, and cameraman Jassim Kamel was wounded, the military said.
Al-Asaad was traveling with an aide and a local activist, Barakat al-Haweish, both of whom were slightly injured, the activist said.
Riad al-Asaad, who became head of the Free Syrian Army rebel coalition.
Ms Asaad and her campaigners have now decided to sidestep both the government and the religious establishment, and put pressure directly on retailers.
"We the consumers are the final decision makers, " says Ms Asaad.
During that transition, al-Asaad, who spent most of his time in a refugee camp in Turkey, never managed to build effective links with most rebel groups or provide the support that would have made them recognize him as their leader.
Riad al-Asaad, leader of a now-sidelined rebel umbrella group known as the Free Syrian Army, had his right foot amputated following the blast late on Sunday, according to an activist in the town of Mayadeen where the attack took place.
Naji Asaad, a retired journalist who continued working for government-run newspaper Tishreen was shot dead outside his home in Damascus on 4 December and government television journalist Bassel Tawfiq Youssef was killed on 21 November in a suburb of Damascus.
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