Al Jazeera has gained exclusive footage from inside Syria of the army defectors fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad's government.<br /><br />The Free Syrian Army is claiming that a steadily increasing number of defected soldiers are joining its ranks.<br /><br />The group is believed to number anywhere between 1,000 and 25,000 troops, divided over 22 battalions spread across the country.<br /><br />The soldiers say their former comrades are selling them weapons.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford reports.
