Order of battle for Operation Olive Branch

This is the order of battle for the Operation Olive Branch, a joint Turkish Armed Forces/Syrian National Army attack on the People's Protection Units-held Afrin Canton.

Turkey and allied forces

* Turkish Armed Forces
** Turkish Land Forces, Land Forces
***Second Army (Turkey), Second Army
****4th Corps (Turkey)
***** 1st Commando Brigade (Turkey), 1st Commando Brigade
****7th Corps (Turkey)
*****3rd Commando Brigade (Turkey)
** Special Forces Command (Turkey), Special forces
** Turkish Air Force, Air Force
** Gendarmerie General Command
*** Gendarmerie Special Public Security Command
**** Gendarmerie Special Operations (JÖH)
**** Village guard system, Village guards

* Turkish Naval Forces
**Underwater Defence (Turkish Armed Forces), SAS EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal)
** Underwater Offence (Turkish Armed Forces), SAT
*General Directorate of Security (Turkey), General Directorate of Security
**Police Special Operation Department (PÖH)
*National Intelligence Organization (Turkey), National Intelligence Organization (MİT)
Grey Wolves (organization), Grey Wolves

Olive Branch Operations Room (Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army)
*Victory Bloc
**Elite Army (Syrian rebel group), Elite Army
***Azadî Battalion, Elite Battalion (Azadî Battalion)
** Sham Legion ()
**Army of Grandchildren
**Northern Brigade
*First Legion
**Syrian Turkmen Brigades, Samarkand Brigade
** Muntasir Billah Brigade
**Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror Brigade
**Conquest Brigade (also part of the Levant Front)

*Second Legion
** Sultan Murad Division
***Sultan Suleiman Shah Brigade
** Hamza Division (Aleppo), Hamza Division
***Kurdish Falcons Brigade
** Al-Mu'tasim Brigade
*Third Legion
**Levant Front
***Northern Storm Brigade
*** Ahrar al-Sham (also part of the Syrian Liberation Front)
**Northern Army
**Glory Corps

* Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement (also part of the Syrian Liberation Front)
* Fastaqim Union
* Mare' Military Council
* Ahrar al-Sharqiya
* Ahl al-Diyar
* 9th Special Forces Division
* Jaysh al-Nasr, Army of Victory ()
* Saladin Brigade (Descendants of Saladin Brigade remnant)
*Martyr Mashaal Tammo Brigade
*Qamishli Shield
*Afrin Shield
*Tajama a-Thuwar al-Kurd (coalition of Kurdish units in the TFSA)

*23rd Division (Syrian rebel group), 23rd Division
*Mustafa Brigade (ex-13th Division (Syrian rebel group), 13th Division unit)
*Northern Hawks Brigade
*Vakkas Brigade
*Mustafa Regiment
*1st Commando Brigade
*Conqueror Lions Brigade
*Resolute Storm Brigade
*Authenticity and Development Front
*Sultan Othman Brigade
*Men of War Brigade
*5th Regiment
*Second Army
*Justice Union
*Syrian Interim Government's Ministry of Defense
** Military Police
* Free Police
** Ex-Free East Ghouta Police forces
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''Southern front (non-TFSA units):''
* Free Idlib Army ()
**Mountain Hawks Brigade
* Syrian Liberation Front elements ()
** Army of Mujahideen remnants

Democratic Federation of Northern Syria and allied forces

Syrian Democratic Forces
* People's Protection Units (YPG)
** YPG International, YPG International Battalion
***American, British and German fighters
* Women's Protection Units (YPJ)
**Martyr Avesta Xabur Battalion (Kongreya Star volunteers)
*Anti-Terror Units (YAT)
* Army of Revolutionaries
** Kurdish Front
**Revolutionary Shield Brigade
* Syriac Military Council (MFS)
* Northern Democratic Brigade
**Idlib Military Council

Afrin Region forces
*Self-Defense Forces (Rojava cantons), Self-Defence Forces (HXP)
* Civil Defence Forces (HPC)
*Asayish (Rojava cantons), Asayish
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
* People's Defence Forces (HPG)
International Freedom Battalion and Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement
* Marxist–Leninist Communist Party (Turkey), MLKP
* Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist, TKP/ML TİKKO
* United Freedom Forces
** Marxist–Leninist Armed Propaganda Unit, THKP-C/MLSPB
** Revolutionary Communard Party, DKP
* Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist, TKEP/L
* Revolutionary Union for Internationalist Solidarity, RUIS
* Martyr Michael Israel Brigade (Antifascist Forces in Afrin)
** Anarchist Struggle

Sinjar Alliance
* Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ)
* Êzîdxan Women's Units (YJÊ)
Anti-Turkish insurgents in Afrin District
*Afrin Falcons
*Wrath of Olives operations room
*Afrin Liberation Forces
Pro-government forces ("Popular Forces")
* National Defence Forces (Syria), National Defence Forces
* Baqir Brigade
*Militias from Nubl and al-Zahraa

References

{{Syrian Civil War

Syrian civil war orders of battle, Olive Branch, Operation