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Syrian Armed Forces
: 142,000
(2019)
[85]
General Security Directorate
: 8,000
[86]
National Defense Force: 80,000
[87]
Liwa Fatemiyoun: 10,000 ? 20,000
(2018)
[88]
Liwa Abu al-Fadhal al-Abbas: 10,000+
(2013)
[89]
Ba'ath Brigades: 7,000
Hezbollah: 6,000?8,000
[90]
Liwa Al-Quds: 4,000?8,000
Russia: 4,000 troops
[91]
& 1,000 contractors
[92]
Iran: 3,000?5,000
[90]
[93]
Other allied groups: 20,000+
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Free Syrian Army: 20,000?32,000
[94]
(2013)
Islamic Front: 40,000?70,000
[95]
[96]
(2014)
Other groups: 12,500
[97]
(2015)
Turkish Armed Forces
: 4,000?8,000
[98]
[99]
Ahrar al-Sham: 18,000?20,000+
[100]
[101]
(March 2017)
Tahrir al-Sham: 20,000?30,000 (per U.S., late 2018)
[102]
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~10,000 (per UN, 2021, in Iraq and Syria)
[103]
~3,000 (per
Russia
, mid 2019)
[104]
[105]
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SDF: 60,000?75,000
(2017 est.)
- YPG & YPJ: 20,000?30,000
(2017 est.)
- Syriac Military Council (MFS): 1,000
(2017 est.)
- Al-Sanadid Forces: 2,000?4,000
(2017 est.)
- SDF Military Councils: 10,000+
[109]
[110]
[111]
United States Armed Forces
:
600
[112]
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Syrian Arab Republic:
91,267?103,670 soldiers & 67,242 militiamen killed
[113]
[114]
4,100 soldiers/militiamen & 1,800 supporters captured
[113]
Hezbollah:
1,712?2,000 killed
[113]
[115]
Russia:
137?160
soldiers killed
& 266?284
PMCs killed
[116]
Other non-Syrian fighters:
8,628 killed
[113]
(2,300?3,500+
IRGC
-led)
[117]
[118]
Total:
169,252?181,984 killed
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Syrian opposition/HTS:
111,576?152,173 killed
[g]
[113]
[114]
Turkey:
256?313
killed
(
2016?20 incursions
)
[119]
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Islamic State:
41,101 killed
[113]
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NES:
14,114 killed
[113]
PKK
:
3,200+ killed
[120]
CJTF?OIR
:
13 killed
[121]
(
10,
1,
1,
1)
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a
Formerly
al-Nusra Front
.
b
Since early 2013, the FSA has been decentralized. Its name is arbitrarily used by various rebels.
c
Turkey provided arms support to rebels (2011?unknown, Aug. 2016 ? present) & fought alongside the
TFSA
in the
Aleppo governorate
vs. SDF,
IS
and Syrian gov.
d
Sep.?Nov. 2016: U.S. fought with the TFSA in Aleppo governorate solely vs. IS.
[123]
[124]
In 2017?18, the U.S.
purposely attacked the Syrian gov.
10 times, & in Sep. 2016 it
accidentally hit a Syrian base
, killing ≥100
SAA
soldiers. Syria maintains this as intentional.
[125]
e
Predecessors of
HTS
(
al-Nusra Front
) &
IS
(
ISI
) were allied
al-Qaeda
branches until April 2013. Al-Nusra Front rejected an ISI-proposed merger into ISIL & al-Qaeda cut all affiliation with ISIL in February 2014.
f
Predecessors of
Ahrar al-Sham
(
Syrian Liberation Front
) &
HTS
(
al-Nusra Front
), were allied under the
Army of Conquest
(Mar. 2015 ? Jan. 2017).
g
Number incl. all anti-government forces, except ISIL and SDF, which are listed in their separate columns.
h
Iraq's involvement was coordinated with the Syrian gov. & limited to airstrikes vs. ISIL.
[1]
i
Israel provided arms to 12 unnamed rebel groups solely against Iran and ISIS.
[126]
Israel has also conducted multiple airstrikes against the Syrian government, Hezbollah, and Iranian positions within Syria.
[127]
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