Ba'ath Brigades

Ba'ath Brigades
كتائب البعث
FounderHilal Hilal
Leaders
  • Jihad Barakat (Commander in Homs)
  • Ra’ed al-Ghadban (Commander in Deir ez-Zor)
  • Mohammed Khaddour (Commander in Al-Hasakah)
  • Col. Salama Mohammed  (Commander in Tartus)
  • Bassem Sudan (Commander in Latakia)
  • Isam Nabhan Subai (Commander in Hama)
Dates of operationSummer 2012 – September 2018
HeadquartersAleppo
Active regionsSyria
IdeologyNeo-Ba'athism
Assadism
Political positionfar-left
Size7,000 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 warsSyrian 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.