Ba'ath Brigades
Volunteer militia made up of Syrian Ba'ath Party members / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ba'ath Brigades (Arabic: كتائب البعث, romanized: Katā'ib al-Baʿth), also known as the Ba'ath Battalions, were a volunteer militia made up of Syrian Ba'ath Party members, almost entirely of Sunni Muslims from Syria and many Arab countries, loyal to the Syrian Government of Bashar Assad.[11]
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Ba'ath Brigades كتائب البعث | |
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Ba'ath Brigades SSI and Insignia Ba'ath Brigades Flag | |
Founder | Hilal Hilal |
Leaders | |
Dates of operation | Summer 2012[6] – September 2018 [1] |
Headquarters | Aleppo |
Active regions | Syria |
Ideology | Neo-Ba'athism Pro-Syrian government |
Size | 7,000 claimed (December 2013)[9] |
Allies | Syrian Armed Forces National Defense Forces |
Opponents | Free Syrian Army Islamic Front al-Nusra Front Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |
Battles and wars | Syrian Civil War |
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