Ba'ath Brigades
| Ba'ath Brigades كتائب البعث | |
|---|---|
Ba'ath Brigades SSI and Insignia Ba'ath Brigades Flag | |
| Founder | Hilal Hilal |
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| Dates of operation | Summer 2012 – September 2018 |
| Headquarters | Aleppo |
| Active regions | Syria |
| Ideology | Neo-Ba'athism Assadism |
| Political position | far-left |
| Size | 7,000 claimed (December 2013) |
| Allies | Syrian Arab Armed Forces National Defence Forces |
| Opponents | Free Syrian Army Islamic Front al-Nusra Front Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |
| Battles and wars | Syrian Civil War |
The Ba'ath Brigades (Arabic: كتائب البعث, romanized: Katā'ib al-Baʿth), also known as the Ba'ath Battalions, were a volunteer militia made up of Syrian Ba'ath Party members, almost entirely of Sunni Muslims from Syria and many Arab countries, loyal to the Syrian Government of Bashar al-Assad.