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Syrian Desert Campaign (December 2017 – December 2024)
The Syrian Desert campaign was a campaign waged by the Syrian Arab Armed Forces forces and their allies, including Iran and Russia, against the remaining forces of the Islamic State in the Syrian Desert region. Background Following a series of campaigns between 2016 and 2017 by the Syrian government and allied forces, the American-led CJTF-OIR coalition and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Turkey and its supporting rebels, the remnants of the Islamic State's forces west of the Euphrates River withdrew into a large pocket in the Syrian Desert, stretching between the western Homs Governorate and the eastern Deir ez-Zor Governorate, from where they utilized guerrilla tactics to target pro-government forces. Timeline 2017 By the end of 2017, the Syrian Army's 5th Legion, supported by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Lebanese Hezbollah, had reportedly seized 50 square kilometers of desert territory in the southeastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, expanding t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palestine Liberation Army
The Palestine Liberation Army (PLA; ) is ostensibly the military wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), set up at the 1964 Arab League summit held in Alexandria, Egypt, with the mission of fighting Israel. However, it has never been under effective PLO control, but rather it has been controlled by its various host governments, usually Syria. Even though it initially operated in several countries, in 2015 the PLA was only active in Syria and recruited male Palestinian refugees. History Foundation and early operations Immediately after its creation at the 1964 Arab League summit in Alexandria, the PLO (then headed by Ahmad Shukeiri) was effectively under the control of the Arab states, especially Nasser's Egypt. The Palestinians would not gain independent control of the organization until Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction wrested it from Nasser-backed Palestinians in 1968–69. Accordingly, the PLA was officially set up in 1964 as the PLO's armed wing despite la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
14th Special Forces Division
The 14th Special Forces Division () was a division of the Syrian Armed Forces specializing in light infantry operations. The Division was part of the Syrian Army's 2nd Corps. Role Syrians used the term "Special Forces" to describe the 14th, 15th divisions, as well as the independent 'special forces' regiments, but they more closely resembled conventional light infantry units than Western Special Forces in both mission and composition. The term "Special Forces" was applied ostensibly because of their specialized training in airborne and air assault operations, but they were regarded as light infantry forces and elite only in relation to the conventional armored and mechanized brigades of the Syrian Army. Command structure ;14th Special Forces Division (2019) * 36th Special Forces Regiment * 554th Special Forces Regiment * 556th Special Forces Regiment Combat history The 14th Special Forces Division was established to command three Special Forces Regiments after the mid 1990s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Corps (Syria)
The 2nd Corps () was a corps of the Syrian Army that was first formed in 1985. Richard Bennett wrote in 2001 that "three corps ereformed in 1985 to give the Army more flexibility and to improve combat efficiency by decentralising the command structure, absorbing at least some of the lessons learned during the 1982 Lebanon War." He said that the 2nd Corps with HQ in Zabadani, covered north of Damascus, whole Homs and included Lebanon. In November 2019, Major General Abdul Majeed Ibrahim was appointed as commander of the 2nd Army Corps of the Syrian Arab Army. Structure in 2001 * 1st Armored Division, with the 44th and 46th Armored Brigades and the 42nd Mechanized Brigade * 3rd Armored Division, with the 47th and 82nd Armored Brigades and the 132nd Mechanized Brigade * 11th Armored Division, with the 60th and 67th Armored Brigades and the 87th Mechanized Brigade * 4th Mechanized Division with the 1st Armored Brigade and the 61st and 89th Mechanized Brigades * 10th Mechanized Div ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
25th Special Mission Forces Division
The 25th Special Mission Forces Division, colloquially known by their former name Tiger Forces (; ''Quwwat al-Nimr''), was an elite special forces unit, that was part of the Syrian Army under the charge of the commander Major General Saleh Abdullah. It was formed in late 2013 and functioned primarily as an offensive unit in the Syrian Civil War. It had been described as a "hot commodity for any government offensive", but their relatively small numbers made it difficult to deploy them to multiple fronts at once. Command structure ;25th SMF Division (2023) * 26th Infantry Brigade * 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Special Forces (Airborne forces, Airborne) Regiments * 75th Armored Regiment * 78th Armored Regiment * Independent Artillery Regiment Organization until 2019 According to Gregory Waters of the Middle East Institute in October 2018, the Tiger Forces used to deploy approximately 24 groups (halfway between a Company (military unit), company and a battalion), which organise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Guard (Syria)
The Syrian Republican Guard (SRG), also known as the Presidential Guard, is the security unit in the Syrian Army. Prior to the fall of the Assad regime, it reportedly consisted of 60,000 guardsmen. It was composed of two mechanized divisions with its main purpose to protect the capital of Syria, Damascus, from any foreign or domestic threats. The Republican Guard was also the only Syrian military unit allowed within the capital, prior to the civil war. It was designed to defend the President as well as the major presidential and strategic institutions, including the presidential palaces. History The Guard was formed in 1976 after the Syrian invasion of Lebanon, during the Lebanese Civil War, to protect the then Syrian president Hafez al-Assad. Major General Adnan Makhlouf commanded the Guard from 1976 until 1997. The Republican Guard is used mostly to protect top Syrian government officials from any external threats and to serve as a counter-weight to the other powerful Syr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syrian Republican Guard SSI
Syrians () are the majority inhabitants of Syria, indigenous to the Levant, most of whom have Arabic, especially its Levantine and Mesopotamian dialects, as a mother tongue. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend of both indigenous elements and the foreign cultures that have come to rule the land and its people over the course of thousands of years. By the seventh century, most of the inhabitants of the Levant spoke Aramaic. In the centuries after the Muslim conquest of the Levant in 634, Arabic gradually became the dominant language, but a minority of Syrians (particularly the Assyrians and Syriac-Arameans retained Aramaic (Syriac), which is still spoken in its Eastern and Western dialects. The national name "Syrian" was originally an Indo-European corruption of Assyrian and applied to Assyria in northern Mesopotamia, however by antiquity it was used to denote the inhabitants of the Levant. Following the Muslim conquest of the Levant, Arab iden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
