Search: Hezbollah,5th Corps (2 materials)

The Fifth Assault Corps. Back to Order in Syria?

... Intelligence Directorate, forcibly recruit people into the Fifth Corps in Sunni areas which have only recently achieved reconciliation with the regime. According to some reports, one of the Fifth Corps’ units will be formed of volunteers trained in Hezbollah camps on the Syrian-Lebanese border. Recruits are a significant but not the main part of the Fifth Corps. They are its future; so, their military training and their study of the specific experience of this and other modern wars in the Middle ...

16.06.2017

The Syrian Armed Forces Seven Years into the Conflict: From a Regular Army to Volunteer Corps

... other “heavy” divisions. The tank and mechanized infantry battalion tactical groups of these formations were often used in conjunction with units of the 14th and 15th Special Forces Divisions, thus providing armoured support to them . Lebanese Hezbollah detachments were subsequently used as an infantry component of the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division on a regular basis. One such example was during the fighting in Aleppo. Nevertheless, all the combat-ready units of the SAA were clearly insufficient,...

17.05.2017

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