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

... period. They have since become an integral part of the regime’s armed forces. The most famous of these groups are Lebanon’s Hezbollah and numerous Iraqi groups, such as Liwa al-Zulfiqar and Liwa Asadullah al-Ghalib, which emerged as the followers of ... ... conglomerate of Iraqi Shiite groups associated with Asaib Ahl al-Haq . Units that are directly subordinated to the Iranian command of Al-Quds also operate in Syria. These include, in particular, the Fatemiyoun Division recruited from Afghan Shiites (which number ...