Syrian Resistance

Syrian Resistance
المقاومة السورية
Leaders
  • Mihrac Ural (overall leader)
  • Jamal Trabelsi (WIA) (Director of the Information Office)
Dates of operation2011 – present
Group(s)Falcons of the Jazira and Euphrates
HeadquartersLatakia
Active regionsSyria
Ideology
Political positionFar-left
Size2,000 (2015)
Part ofMilitary Intelligence Directorate (until 2024)
Allies Syrian Arab Armed Forces
National Defence Force
DHKP-C
Opponents Free Syrian Army
Jaysh al-Islam
Ahrar al-Sham
Al-Nusra Front/Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham
 Turkey
Al-Nusra Front
 Islamic State
Battles and warsSyrian Civil War
Insignia (SSI)

The Syrian Resistance (Arabic: المقاومة السورية, romanized: al-Muqāwamat al-Sūriyah), formerly known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Sanjak of Iskandarun (Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير لواء اسكندرون), is a Marxist-Leninist pro-Assad militia that operated in northwest Syria in support of the Ba'athist regime during the civil war.