18th Armoured Division (Syria)

18th Armoured Division
18th Armoured Division
الفرقة المدرعة الثامنة عشر
	Syrian Armed Forces Flag
Active	Unknown – 2024
Country	Ba'athist Syria
Allegiance	Syrian Arab Armed Forces
Branch	Syrian Army
Type	Armoured division
Role	Armoured warfare
Size	~ 7,000 soldiers (2018)
Part of	3rd Corps
Garrison/HQ	Aleppo
Engagements	Syrian Civil War Siege of Homs; Palmyra offensive (May 2015); Palmyra offensive (July–August 2015); Palmyra offensive (March 2016); Palmyra offensive (December 2016); Eastern Homs offensive (2017); East Hama offensive (2017); Central Syria campaign (2017); Northwestern Syria campaign (October 2017–February 2018); Operation Idlib Dawn I; ;
Commanders
Current Commander	Maj. Gen. Adam Fayyad
Deputy Commander	Maj. Gen. Habib Ahmed Ibrahim
Notable; commanders	Maj. Gen. Mohammad Nayouf

The 18th Armoured Division (Arabic: الفرقة المدرعة الثامنة عشر or الفرقة المدرعة 18) was one of two autonomous reserve divisions of the Syrian Arab Army prior to the fall of Ba'athist Syria, the other being the 17th Division. The 18th Division is part of the 3rd Corps. It was the smallest conventional division in the Syrian Arab Army with only about 7,000 men.