25th Special Mission Forces Division

25th Special Mission Forces Division
25th Special Mission Forces Division
	Logo of the Syrian Special Forces, used by the 25th Special Mission Forces Division
Active	2013–2024
Country	Ba'athist Syria
Allegiance	Syrian Arab Armed Forces
Branch	Syrian Arab Army
Type	Special forces
Size	12,000 soldiers (2022)
Garrison/HQ	Aleppo
Nickname(s)	Tiger Forces or Quwwat Al-Nimr (Arabic: قوات النمر)
Tactical color marking
Equipment	AK-74M rifles; T-90 tanks; T-72 tanks; T-55 tanks
Engagements	List Syrian Civil War Battle of Aleppo; ; Operation Canopus Star ; Kuweires offensive (September–November 2015) ; East Aleppo offensive (2015–16) ; 2016 Aleppo campaign ; Aleppo offensive (September 2016) ; Aleppo offensive (October–November 2016) ; Operation Dawn of Victory ; Second Battle of the Shaer gas field ; 2014 Hama offensive ; 2015 Northwestern Syria offensive ; Al-Ghab offensive (July–August 2015) ; 2016 Khanasir offensive ; Palmyra offensive (March 2016) ; 2016 Hama offensive ; Palmyra offensive (December 2016) ; Palmyra offensive (2017) ; East Aleppo offensive (January–April 2017) ; 2017 Hama offensive ; Maskanah Plains offensive ; Southern Raqqa offensive (June 2017) ; Central Syria campaign (2017) ; Hama offensive (September 2017) ; 2017 Mayadin offensive ; Northwestern Syria campaign (October 2017–February 2018) ; Operation Damascus Steel ; Operation Dawn of Idlib ; Operation Dawn of Idlib II ; Operation Spring Shield ; Battle of Aleppo (2024) ; 2024 Hama offensive ; 2024 Homs offensive ;
Commanders
Current Commander	Maj. Gen. Saleh Abdullah
Deputy Commander & Chief of Staff	Brig. Gen. Yunis Muhammad
Commander of Assault Troops	Brig. Gen. Yasser Ahmed
Notable; commanders	Maj. Gen. Suheil al-Hassan

The 25th Special Mission Forces Division, colloquially known by their former name Tiger Forces (Arabic: قُوَّات النِّمْر; Quwwat al-Nimr), was an elite special forces unit, that was part of the Syrian Army under the charge of the commander Major General Saleh Abdullah. It was formed in late 2013 and functioned primarily as an offensive unit in the Syrian Civil War. It had been described as a "hot commodity for any government offensive", but their relatively small numbers made it difficult to deploy them to multiple fronts at once.