Shabiha (Levantine Arabic: شَبِّيحَة Šabbīḥa, pronounced [ʃabˈbiːħa]; also romanized Shabeeha or Shabbiha; lit. 'ghosts') is a colloquial and generally...

financing Shabiha in the region of Latakia. Fawaz al-Assad, nephew of Hafez, leader of Shabiha Mundhir al-Assad, nephew of Hafez, leader of Shabiha Samer...

sheltering a local Shabiha commander who was stealing property from the locals. The Leon Sedov Brigade proceeded to arrest the Shabiha commander when he...

Ba'athist government during the Syrian Civil War. The unit originates as Shabiha, a criminal organization that has operated in Latakia Governorate since...

have died under torture. Human Rights Watch accused the government and Shabiha of using civilians as human shields when they advanced on opposition held-areas...

the army relied on loyal elite units and Alawite militias such as the Shabiha. Due to defections following the uprisings, by the end of 2013 the number...

the conflict and sanctions also led to lower wages for Shabiha members. In response, some Shabiha members began stealing civilian properties and engaging...

Arab countries. Maher al-Assad also supervised operations of the dreaded Shabiha squads, pro-Assad Alawite paramilitaries known for sectarian attacks against...

Having escaped after five days in captivity, Engel said he believed that a Shabiha group loyal to al-Assad was behind the abduction, and that the crew was...

militants) had been killed by the Syrian army, security agents and militia (Shabiha), while 1,100 people had been killed by "terrorist armed forces". On 10...

contrast with the Shabiha forces, received salaries and military equipment from the government. Since the formation of the NDF, Shabiha members have been...

which angered many across the country. The regime also deployed sectarian Shabiha death squads to attack the protestors. Protests and revolutionary activities...

Sunni Islam after being influenced by her friends. She attends her senior shabiha's lectures in secrecy from her family and her roommates, Javeria and Rabia...

victims had been killed in "two bouts of summary executions" by pro-Assad Shabiha. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland asserted on 29 May that...

Battalions Vostok and Zapad Arkan's Tigers Fakel (company) Redut (company) Shabiha, a similar Syrian militia loyal to the Al-Assad family Russian: 141-й специальный...

protect the lives of civilians and their possessions from security and the Shabiha [pro-government] militia. We are a people who will either gain victory...

to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, on 24 November soldiers and Shabiha with armoured vehicles started operations in farmland west of Rastan in...

close to the family said that they believed Foley was kidnapped by the Shabiha militia, a group loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He was later...

[citation needed] In this they were somewhat similar to the Basij of Iran or Shabiha militia of Syria. Much like other paramilitaries, the Fedayeen was volunteer...

2012-09-12. Retrieved 2012-10-09. "BBC News — Syria unrest: Who are the shabiha?". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-05-29. Archived from the original on 2012-09-06. Retrieved...

troops had surrounded the village which was followed by pro-government Shabiha militia entering the village and killing civilians with "barbarity," UN...

involvement in the killing of Khashoggi. Human rights in Saudi Arabia Shabiha General Intelligence Presidency 2017–19 Saudi Arabian purge "Saudi operatives...

controversial, as upon their release, Engel and his crew blamed a Shiite Shabiha group of Assad loyalists for the abduction. The narrative was, however...

Undercover operation Baltagiya Rubbish Collection Organization (Thailand) Shabiha (Syria) Colectivo (Venezuela) "Кто такие "титушки", и почему их так называют...

violations of human rights on a massive scale" by the Syrian military and shabiha, "many of which amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes". These...

reported that Ba'athist regime and state-sponsored deathsquads like the Shabiha have been involved in the extensive mass-killings and sectarian attacks...

The members of the group have been repeatedly compared to the Syrian Shabiha, Hezbollah or the Wagner Group due to the representations of its members...

first of the two battles in al-Qusayr was fought by the Syrian army and Shabiha against the Free Syrian Army in the small city of Al-Qusayr, near Homs...

called shabiha, involved in all kinds of mafia-style violence and corruption. Al-Murtada was banned by Hafez al-Assad in 1983. On the other hand, shabiha still...

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