Syrian army
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الجيش العربي السوري |
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 Coat of arms of the Syrian Army |
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| Lineup | 1945 |
| Country |
 Syria
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| Armed forces | Armed Forces of Syria |
| Type | Armed forces ( army ) |
| Strength | > 125,000 in April 2015 |
The Syrian Army , officially Syrian Arab Army ( SAA ) ( Arabic الجيش العربي السوري al-Jaysh al-'Arabī as-Sūrī ), forms the army of the Syrian armed forces . Reliable information on manpower and equipment is not available due to the involvement in the Syrian Civil War .
structure
The Syrian army command directly below are two artillery brigades , three SSM - brigades with three battalions (depending arms a brigade with FROG-7 , R-17 and SS-21 ), two anti-tank brigades , a tank regiment , the 14 special Division , ten independent special insert regiments and the border brigade .
The remaining units are mostly divided into three corps commands , more precisely:
- I. Army Corps ( HQ : Damascus )
- II Army Corps (HQ: Zabadani )
- III. Army Corps (HQ: Aleppo )
Calls
The Syrian Army took part in the Palestine War from 1948 to 1949. From 1949 to 1967 the army carried out several military coups . In 1973 it took part in the Yom Kippur War . The Syrian Army was also deployed in the Lebanese Civil War , the 1982 Lebanon War , the Second Gulf War and, since 2011, the Syrian Civil War .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anne Barnard, Hwaida Saad, Eric Schmitt: / An Eroding Syrian Army Points to Strain . In: The New York Times . April 28, 2015. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
- ↑ Country information from the Austrian Ministry of Defense