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The Republican Guard uniform was distinct from the regular Army uniform. Service dress consisted of woodland camouflage worn with red berets, rather than the standard black or green, red epaulettes, red lanyards, and brown leather belts with green camouflaged shoes. [80] On ceremonial occasions, officers wore red peaked caps instead of a beret ...
The Syrian Arab Armed Forces collapsed in 2024 with the fall of the Assad regime and flight of Bashar al-Assad. [18] The new de-facto rulers of Syria, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, are making preparations to drastically reorganise Syria's military forces and ambitions. [19]
The Syrian Armed Forces (Arabic: القوات المسلحة السورية, romanized: al-Quwwāt al-Musallaḥah as-Sūrīyah) are the military forces of Syria.. Up until the fall of Bashar al-Assad's Baath Party regime in December 2024, the Syrian Arab Armed Forces were the state armed forces.
President for 24 years, Assad flew out of Damascus for an unknown destination early on Sunday, two senior army officers told Reuters. Rebels declared the city "free of the tyrant Bashar al-Assad".
Russia is planning to move military gear from its naval base in Syria, Ukrainian intelligence says. It comes amid uncertainty around Russia's role in Syria following the fall of Bashar Assad.
Families of military officers who served under Syria's ousted Bashar al-Assad are being evicted from their subsidised housing at a compound outside Damascus to make way for victorious former ...
They were under the command of Rifaat al-Assad, the president's brother. The Defense Companies were garrisoned outside Damascus, with the primary mission of countering attempted coups and challenges to the Assad government. These special forces, however, also had military missions beyond the role of a praetorian guard.
President Bashar al-Assad used Russian and Iranian firepower to beat back rebel forces during years of civil war but never defeated them, leaving him vulnerable when his allies were distracted by ...