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Syrian Hezbollah
Syrian Hezbollah was the Syrian branch of the Lebanese Shia political party and paramilitary organization, Hezbollah, fighting in the Syrian Civil War until it withdrew from Syria following the fall of the Assad regime in late 2024. The group was directly trained by the Lebanese Hezbollah, the IRGC, and formerly the Syrian Armed Forces. The group had fighters deployed in Damascus, Aleppo, Daraa, and Quneitra. Quwat al-Ridha had obscure links with Syrian Hezbollah. The group also participated in the 2023 attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria Starting on 17 October 2023, and in response to United States support for Israel in the Gaza war, Iran-backed Iran and state-sponsored terrorism, militias initiated a coordinated series of more than 170 attacks on United States, US List of Un .... On October 30, 2023, Syrian Hezbollah militants conducted rocket attacks targeting US forces stationed at Conoco gas fields in eastern Syria. References * Hezbollah Hezbollah involve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of Hezbollah
The flag of the Shi'a political and military organization Hezbollah depicts a stylized representation of the Arabic words (, meaning 'Party of God') in Kufic script. Written near the first letter of the word Allah, there is a hand that reaches up to grasp a stylized assault rifle. The flag incorporates several other symbols, namely a globe, a book, a sword, and a seven-leafed branch. The text above the logo reads (''fa-inna ḥizba llāhi humu l-gālibūna'') and means "Then surely the party of God are they that shall be triumphant" (Quran 5:56), which is a reference to the name of the party. Underneath the logo are the words (''al-muqāwamah al-islāmīyah fī lubnān)'', meaning "The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon". Symbolism Colours Yellow is the predominant colour on the flag and forms the basis for its field. Whilst there is no reason given for this choice of colour, journalist Tim Marshall has theorised that it may have been chosen to signify Hezbollah's willingn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Aleppo (2012–2016)
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Shia Islam
Shia Islam is the second-largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib () as both his political Succession to Muhammad, successor (caliph) and as the spiritual leader of the Muslim community (Imamah (Shia doctrine), imam). However, his right is understood to have been usurped by a number of Companions of the Prophet, Muhammad's companions at the meeting of Saqifa where they appointed Abu Bakr () as caliph instead. As such, Sunni Muslims believe Abu Bakr, Umar (), Uthman () and Ali to be 'Rashidun, rightly-guided caliphs' whereas Shia Muslims only regard Ali as the legitimate successor. Shia Muslims assert imamate continued through Ali's sons Hasan ibn Ali, Hasan and Husayn ibn Ali, Husayn, after whom different Shia branches have their own imams. They revere the , the family of Muhammad, maintaining that they possess divine knowledge. Shia holy sites include the Imam Ali Shrine, shrine of Ali in Naj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attacks On US Bases During The Gaza War
Starting on 17 October 2023, and in response to United States support for Israel in the Gaza war, Iran-backed Iran and state-sponsored terrorism, militias initiated a coordinated series of more than 170 attacks on United States, US List of United States military bases, military bases and assets in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan. These attacks resulted in injuries to dozens of US service members. In retaliation, the US has launched multiple counterattacks, resulting in the death of about 65 militants including a senior commander of the Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, Nujaba Movement, Mushtaq Talib al-Saidi. In February 2024, following February 2024 United States airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, militia attacks against US forces were halted. Iraqi militias agreed with the Iraqi government in December 2024 to fully cease their attacks following the fall of the Assad regime in Ba'athist Syria, Syria. Attacks Iraq Al-Asad air base On 17 October 2023, amid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Eastern Crisis (2023–present)
The Middle Eastern crisis is a series of interrelated wars, conflicts, and heightened instability in the Middle East that began in 2023 after the October 7 attacks, 7 October attacks on Israel, which followed a period of rising tensions and increased violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; the attacks killed about 1,200 people in Israel and saw Gaza war hostage crisis, about 250 more taken hostage. Israel responded by declaring war and embarking on Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, a bombing campaign, and later Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, invasion, of the Gaza Strip as a part of the Gaza war, war in Gaza that Casualties of the Gaza war, has killed over 55,000 Palestinians. Shortly after the Gaza war began, several Iran-backed militias in the Axis of Resistance joined the conflict, with the stated aim of halting Israel's killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In Lebanon, Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel, igniting a Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Homs Offensive
The 2024 Homs offensive was a military operation launched by forces of the Syrian Salvation Government (SSG) and allied Turkish-backed rebel groups in the Syrian Interim Government (SIG) during the 2024 Syrian opposition offensive, a phase of the Syrian Civil War. The operation was launched by the Military Operations Command following its capture of Hama on 5 December 2024 during the 2024 Hama offensive. The offensive ended in the city being captured by opposition forces on the night of 7/8 December after government forces abandoned the city. Background On 5 November 2024, Israeli airstrikes targeted Hezbollah weapon depots in Al Qusayr city. On 16 November 2024, a second round of Israeli airstrikes against Hezbollah targets the al-Qusayr region occurred. Syrian military sites were also targeted. The strikes destroyed several bridges, including the one over the Orontes River that connects Qusayr and several towns in Homs' eastern and western countrysides. On 27 November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fall Of The Assad Regime
On 8 December 2024, the Assad regime collapsed during a 2024 Syrian opposition offensives, major offensive by Syrian opposition, opposition forces. The offensive was spearheaded by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and supported mainly by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army as part of the ongoing Syrian civil war that began with the Syrian revolution in 2011. The Fall of Damascus (2024), capture of Syria's capital, Damascus, marked the end of the Assad family's rule, which had governed Syria as a hereditary Totalitarianism, totalitarian dictatorship since Hafez al-Assad assumed power in 1971 after a Corrective Movement (Syria), successful coup d'état. As Southern Operations Room, a rebel coalition advanced towards Damascus, reports emerged that Bashar al-Assad had fled the capital aboard a plane to Russia, where he joined his family, already in exile, and was granted Right of asylum, asylum. Following his departure, opposition forces declared victory on state television. Concu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwestern Syria Offensive (December 2019–March 2020)
Northwestern Syria offensive may refer to: *Northwestern Syria offensive (April–June 2015) or Battle of Victory *Al-Ghab offensive (July–August 2015), in northwestern Syria *Northwestern Syria offensive (October–November 2015) *Northwestern Syria campaign (October 2017–February 2018) *Northwestern Syria offensive (April–August 2019) The 2019 northwestern Syria offensive, codenamed "Dawn of Idlib" (), was a military operation launched on 30 April 2019 by the Syrian Armed Forces and its allies against rebel groups in northwestern Syria during the Syrian civil war in a reg ... or Dawn of Idlib * Northwestern Syria offensive (December 2019–March 2020) or Dawn of Idlib 2 * Northwestern Syria offensive (2024) or Deterrence of Aggression {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Damascus Offensive (April–May 2018)
The Southern Damascus offensive began on 19 April 2018 when the Syrian Arab Armed Forces began to clear an enclave held by the Islamic State (IS) in southern Damascus in the Yarmouk Camp. Background In March 2018, ISIL massacred dozens of Syrian soldiers in an offensive for al-Qadam. On 14 April, ISIL then began an offensive on the western axis of the al-Qadam neighborhood and on 15 April, ISIL's forces in the Yarmouk Camp shelled areas held by the government. On the same day, the Syrian government began redeploying soldiers from East Ghouta to the area in an attempt to surround the camp. Offensive On 19 April, after a week of intermittent escalations, the Syrian Arab Army and allied Palestinian militias launched an offensive against the ISIL-held al-Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood and the Palestinian Yarmouk Camp. Barrages of missiles and artillery shells bombarded ISIL positions in the Yarmouk Camp, Qadam, and Tadamon districts of the ISIL pocket in more than 580 air ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syrian Desert Campaign (December 2017–present)
Syrians () are the majority inhabitants of Syria, indigenous to the Levant, most of whom have Arabic, especially its Levantine and Mesopotamian dialects, as a mother tongue. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend of both indigenous elements and the foreign cultures that have come to rule the land and its people over the course of thousands of years. By the seventh century, most of the inhabitants of the Levant spoke Aramaic. In the centuries after the Muslim conquest of the Levant in 634, Arabic gradually became the dominant language, but a minority of Syrians (particularly the Assyrians and Syriac-Arameans retained Aramaic (Syriac), which is still spoken in its Eastern and Western dialects. The national name "Syrian" was originally an Indo-European corruption of Assyrian and applied to Assyria in northern Mesopotamia, however by antiquity it was used to denote the inhabitants of the Levant. Following the Muslim conquest of the Levant, Arab id ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwestern Syria Campaign (October 2017–February 2018)
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Eastern Syria Campaign (September–December 2017)
The Eastern Syria campaign of September–December 2017 was a large-scale military operation of the Syrian Army (SAA) and its allies against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the Syrian Civil War. Its goal was to clear the city of Deir ez-Zor of any remaining ISIL forces, capture ISIL's de facto capital of Mayadin, as well as seize the border town of Abu Kamal, which became one of ISIL's final urban strongholds by the latter stages of the campaign. The campaign was concurrent with the 2017 Western Iraq campaign, the Raqqa campaign conducted by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against ISIL's former capital city of Raqqa, as well as with the SDF's offensive in Deir ez-Zor province along the eastern banks of the Euphrates River. The campaign Surrounding Deir ez-Zor Following a large-scale summer campaign in central Syria, which succeeded in lifting the siege of Deir ez-Zor, the Syrian Army began operations to surround the remaining ISIL-held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
