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    external attack. In 1984, the 55,000 strong Defense Companies was dismantled and merged into the Syrian Armed Forces expanding the Republican Guard,...
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  • for its services Private military company, provides armed security services, i.e. "Contractors" Defense Companies (Syria), a former paramilitary force Arms...
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  • cousin of the late Syrian president, Hafez Assad. The all Alawite Struggle Companies are broadly similar to the Defense Companies and were fanatically...
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    military forces of the Syrian Arab Republic. They consist of the Syrian Army, Syrian Air Force, Syrian Navy, Syrian Air Defense Force, and paramilitary...
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  • البيضاء al-Ḫawdh al-bayḍāʾ / al-Qubaʿāt al-Bayḍāʾ), officially known as Syrian Civil Defence (SCD; Arabic: الدفاع المدني السوري ad-Difāʿ al-Madanī as-Sūrī)...
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    The Syrian Air Defence Force (SyADF or SADF), officially the Syrian Arab Air Defence Force (SyAADF or SAADF; Arabic: قوات الدفاع الجوي العربي السوري)...
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    Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It is bounded by the Mediterranean...
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    The Syrian Army, officially the Syrian Arab Army (SyAA or SAA) (Arabic: الجيش العربي السوري, romanized: al-Jayš al-ʿArabī as-Sūrī), is the land force branch...
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    2024 Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters attack (category 2024 in the Syrian civil war)
    and Syria, which killed at least 12 civilians and wounded 25 more according to the Syrian Democratic Forces. TAI is one of Turkey's major companies specializing...
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    the Syrian government and its allies via airstrikes and aircraft shoot-downs, mainly in defense of either the Syrian Democratic Forces or the Syrian Free...
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    1982 Hama massacre (category Syria articles missing geocoordinate data)
    (Arabic: مجزرة حماة) occurred in February 1982 when the Syrian Arab Army and the Defense Companies paramilitary force, under orders of president Hafez al-Assad...
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  • Defense denies their involvement in the 27 April attack on a hospital in Aleppo, Syria. 29 April Airstrikes against rebel-held areas in Aleppo, Syria...
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    The Syrian civil war is an ongoing multi-sided conflict in Syria involving various state-sponsored and non-state actors. In March 2011, popular discontent...
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    2017). "Mattis: U.S. Syria policy is still to defeat ISIS". Politico. Burns, Robert (April 21, 2017). "US Defense Sec'y Mattis: Syria still has chemical...
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    Hafez al-Assad (category Syrian ministers of defense)
    considered the face of corruption by the Syrian people. Although highly paid as Commander of Defense Companies, he accumulated unexplained wealth. According...
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    military intervention in Syria after a request by the government of Bashar al-Assad for military support in its fight against the Syrian opposition and Islamic...
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    Conglomerate companies of Italy Defence companies of Italy International Flight Training School Portals: Companies Aviation Italy "Leonardo - Company Profile"...
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  • The Syrian Armed Forces are made up of the Syrian Arab Army (includes Republican Guard), Syrian Naval Forces, Syrian Air Forces and Syrian Air Defense Forces...
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  • Adnan Tanrıverdi. The company operates within the Middle East and provides services such as military and interior training, defense consultancy, and ordnance...
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    democratic system in Syria, with direct open elections, universal equality, respecting human rights within the region, as well as defense of minority and religious...
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    earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. The epicenter was 37 km (23 mi) west–northwest of Gaziantep. The earthquake...
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    Syria and Iran are strategic allies. Syria is usually called Iran's "closest ally", notwithstanding the conflict between the Arab nationalism ideology...
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    Wagner Group's operations in Syria as an "information attack". However, sources within the Russian FSB and the Defense Ministry unofficially stated for...
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    Israel Defense Forces military system jointly developed by the Israeli defense contractor Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and the American defense contractor...
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    Syria as Middle East braces for Israeli retaliation". Reuters. 25 October 2024. "Israel strikes Damascus, military site near Homs, Syrian defense says"...
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  • are over 150 active defense companies based in the country with combined revenues of more than $3.5 billion annually. Israeli defense equipment exports...
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    in the territory of the United States or from United States companies or persons to Syria. This prohibition concerns any product of which at least 10%...
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    Fateh-110 (category Weapons of Syria)
    also license-built in Syria as the M-600. The missile has been used in the Syrian Civil War by Iran and Syria. Its presence in Syria was cited as a reason...
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    Syria is a unitary state, but for administrative purposes, it is divided into fourteen governorates, also called provinces or counties in English (Arabic...
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    private security companies Private police Company police Private army Defense contractor LOGCAP Personal Security Detachment Private defense agency Private...
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