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] |
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Battles and wars | Syrian Civil War |
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 al-Assad.[11]
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