Ba'ath Brigades

Ba'ath Brigades
كتائب البعث
Ba'ath Brigades; كتائب البعث
	; Ba'ath Brigades SSI and Insignia; ; ; Ba'ath Brigades Flag
Founder	Hilal Hilal
Leaders	Jihad Barakat (1964–2018); Ra’ed al-Ghadban (?–2017); Mohammed Khaddour; Col. Salama Mohammed †; Bassem Sudan; Isam Nabhan Subai;
Dates of operation	Summer 2012 – September 2018
Headquarters	Aleppo
Active regions	Syria Aleppo Governorate; Damascus Governorate; Latakia Governorate; Tartus Governorate; As-Suwayda Governorate; Hasakah Governorate;
Ideology	Neo-Ba'athism; Pro-Syrian government
Size	7,000 claimed (December 2013)
Allies	Syrian Armed Forces; National Defense Forces
Opponents	Free Syrian Army; Islamic Front; al-Nusra Front; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016) Operation Canopus Star; Operation Rainbow; Aleppo offensive (July 2015); Kuweires offensive; Aleppo offensive (October–November 2015); ; Siege of Northern Homs; Hama offensive (March–April 2017); 2018 Southern Syria offensive;

The Ba'ath Brigades (Arabic: كتائب البعث, romanized: Katā'ib al-Baʿth), also known as the Ba'ath Battalions, were a volunteer militia made up of Syrian Ba'ath Party members, almost entirely of Sunni Muslims from Syria and many Arab countries, loyal to the Syrian Government of Bashar Assad.

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