Syrian Civil War 2011-2012 - Societa italiana di storia militare

1. Syrian Civil War
Date
Location
Result
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15 March 2011 – ongoing
(1 year, 4 months, 2 weeks and 3 days)
Syria
Ongoing
Assad government
• Syrian Armed Forces
o Syrian Army
o Syrian Navy
o Syrian Air Force
o Republican Guard
• General Security Directorate
• Political Security Directorate
• Shabiha
Hezbollah [1][2][3]
Military support from:
Iran [4][5][6]
Belligerents
Commanders and leaders
Syrian National Council
• Free Syrian Army [7]
• Syrian Liberation Army [8]
Military support from:
Turkey [9]
Saudi Arabia [9][10][11]
Qatar [9][10][11]
Arab volunteers [12]
Mujahideen including [13][14][15][16]
• Al-Nusra Front to Protect the Levant
• al-Qaeda in Iraq [15][17][18]
• Fatah al-Islam [19]
• Ahrar al-Sham [20]
Kurdish Supreme Committee
• Popular Protection Units [21]
Military support from:
Peshmerga [22]
Bashar al-Assad President of Syria
Riyad Farid Hijab Prime Minister of Syria
Fahd Jassem al-Freij Minister of Defense (from 18 July
2012) and Chief of Staff (8 August 2011 – 18 July 2012)
Dawoud Rajiha † Minister of Defense (8 August 2011 –
18 July 2012)
Ali Abdullah Ayyoub Chief of Army Staff
Maher al-Assad Republican Guard Commander
Mohammad al-Shaar Interior Minister
Assef Shawkat † Deputy Defense Minister
Hisham Bekhityar † Intelligence head
Walid Muallem Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister
Hassan Turkmani † Deputy Vice President
Mohammad Ali Jafari IRGC Commander In Chief
Qasem Soleimani IRGC Quds Force Commander
Hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah Secretary General [23]
Syrian Armed Forces: 304,000 (at peak) [25]
General Security Directorate: 8,000
Shabiha militiamen: 20,000 fighters
Syrian security forces
5,049 soldiers and policemen killed, [30] 70 militiamen
killed [31]
Strength
Casualties and losses
Abdulbaset Sieda
Chairman Syrian National Council (SNC)
Burhan Ghalioun Chairman SNC (August 2011 –
June 2012)
Riad al-Asaad Free Syrian Army Commander
Mustafa al-SheikhHigher Military Council Head
Ali Sadreddine Bayanouni Muslim Brotherhood
Leader
Haitham al-Maleh National Action Group Head
Abdul Razzaq Tlass Farouk battalion commander
Manaf Tlass Former Syrian bridger general
Abdul Halim Khaddam Vice President of Syria
(1984–2005)
Salih Muslim Head of Kurdish Democratic Union
Party
Ismail Hama Head of Kurdish National Concil [24]
Mahdi al-Harati Libyan rebel commander [12]
40,000 [26] –60,000 [27] fighters
• 18,000–30,000 defectors [28]
• 6,000 Liwaa Al-Umma fighters (including
Libyan volunteers.) [29]
• 500–900 foreign Mujahideen [13]
Syrian rebels and protesters
4,752 fighters* (see here) and 979–1,763 protesters
killed, [32][33]
26,776 protesters and fighters captured [34]