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Iraq, located between Syria and Iran, was criticized by the U.S. for allowing Iran to ship military supplies to Assad over Iraqi airspace. [66] The Economist said that Iran had, by February 2012, sent the Syrian government $9 billion to help it withstand international sanctions. [45]
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), launched an offensive on pro-government forces near the towns of Khasham and Al-Salihiyah in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor on 3 December. They managed to capture the village of Al-Hussainiyah. [14] CJTF–OIR coalition aircraft provided support to the SDF, by targeting Iran-backed militias in the ...
The Funding of the Axis of Resistance refers to the way the axis, a network of Iranian-backed militias and political groups in the Middle East, [1] [2] gains its financial resources. Via the Qods Force [ 3 ] —a special forces unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps —Iran has allocated substantial resources to strengthen each group's ...
Russia has provided air support to the regime and to Iranian-backed forces in Syria. [123] However, despite cooperation with Iran in Syria, Russia has maintained close ties with Israel and Arab Gulf states [ 124 ] [ 125 ] [ 126 ] and has been pursuing normalisation of ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia. [ 127 ]
On 27 November 2024, a coalition of Syrian revolutionary factions called the Military Operations Command [45] led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and supported by allied Turkish-backed groups [46] [47] [48] in the Syrian National Army (SNA) launched an offensive against the Ba'athist regime's armed forces in Idlib, Aleppo and Hama Governorates in Syria.
A number of sources have emphasized that as of at least late-2015/early-2016 the Assad regime was dependent on a mix of volunteers and militias, rather than the Syrian Armed Forces. [1] [2] Between 2016 and 2020, with the help of Russia and Iran, the Syrian Arab Armed Forces were rebuilt and united most of the armed militias. [3]
The US launches retaliatory airstrikes targeting Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria, in response to an attack that killed three US troops in Jordan. [4] 5 February – A drone attack against a U.S. military base in Deir ez-Zor Governorate kills seven Syrian Democratic Forces fighters and injures 18 others.
Hashemite Tribes Regiment (Arabic: فوج العشائر الهاشمية, romanized: Fawj al-ʻashāʼir al-Hāshimīyah) is a militant group based in Eastern Syria, more specifically Deir ez-Zor, and participates in the Eastern Syrian insurgency mainly against U.S-backed groups like the Syrian Democratic Forces and Kurdish forces and groups with the goal of establishing reinforced control of ...