DAMASCUS, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Syrian army issued a decree Monday to discharge the conscript officers who have served in the army for five years, according to state news agency SANA.
The new decision covers officers who have served in the reserve forces as well as others whose mandatory military service was expanded and reached five years.
According to the report, the new motion will go into effect as of Dec. 16.
The new decision comes over a month after the army issued a decree ending previous unanswered calls for reserve forces.
According to the previous provision, the pursuit of wanted young men who have averted to report to the reserve forces in Syrian army will be halted, and their names will be deleted from the wanted list in airports and border crossings.
However, a couple of weeks later, the army renewed calls for the reserve forces again.
The Syrian army has made several calls for reserve forces throughout the crisis, which is basically choosing men with certain military skills between 18 and 42 years old, to report to the reserve service.
The list of names of draft dodgers and reserve forces' wanted men is updated almost daily to checkpoints inside the country and the country's border crossings as well.
As the situation in the country has become much better, and the military operations across the country have dramatically decreased, people in Syria are expecting more flexible service laws.
Ahead of the seven-year crisis in Syria, the mandatory military service was time-fixed to a year and a half but as the crisis dragged on, the army kept large numbers of conscripts in service for more years.
