Hamza Division (Aleppo)

Hamza Division
فرقة الحمزة
Furqat al-Hamza
Leaders
  • Brig. Gen. Sayf Bulad ("Sayf Abu Bakr")
  • Lt. Abdullah Halawa
  • Abu Jalal
  • Hasan Abdullah Kulli (Kurdish Falcons Brigade)
  • Yasser Abu al-Sheikh 
Dates of operation2013–present
Group(s)
  • Hamza Brigade
  • Northern Thunder Brigade
  • Mare' Resistance Brigade
  • Special Operations Brigade
  • Dhi Qar Brigade
  • Kurdish Falcons Brigade

Former:

HeadquartersMare, Aleppo Governorate
Military college near al-Bab
Active regionsAleppo Governorate
IdeologySyrian nationalism
Size2,200+ (self-claim, September 2017)

900 (February 2017)

600+ (2018)
Part of Free Syrian Army
Syrian National Army Hawar Kilis Operations Room
Allies Turkey
 United States (until 2016)
 Azerbaijan
Al-Mu'tasim Brigade
Liwa Ahfad Saladin
Sultan Murad Division
Levant Front
Opponents Islamic State
Syrian Democratic Forces
Syrian Arab Armed Forces
Libyan National Army
Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement (since 2017)
Ahrar al-Sharqiya
Ahrar al-Sham
 Armenia
 Artsakh
Battles and wars
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The Hamza Division (Arabic: فرقة الحمزة) is a Syrian rebel group in northwestern Syria affiliated with the Syrian National Army, trained and equipped by the United States, the United Kingdom and Turkey as part of the Syrian Train and Equip Program. Formed in 2013, it cooperates with the Turkish Armed Forces in the Turkish occupation of northern Syria.

In 2018, Turkey "deployed 600 members of the Kurdish Falcon Brigade to join the Hamza Division" in "what may have been an.. [attempt] to counter accusations of anti-Kurdish discrimination". As of 2018, the Hamza Division is "made up of 200 Kurdish and 400 Arab fighters" trained and armed by Turkey.