(Counter-Terrorism), led by Brigadier General Suhail Hassan.” The size and structure of the 5th Corps allowed Russia With this change in patronage, the Russians and the SAA began to extend its reach across the country, simultaneously restructuring the Tiger Forces, expanding the group from a highly deploying brigades to nearly every active front. [...] an import tool for integrating militias from Homs, Hama, Idlib, and eastern Aleppo, as well as a path of recruitment within the Sunni The second major transformation came in August 2019, as areas of the aforementioned governorates recaptured by pro- part of the SAA and Russia’s attempts to move the Tiger Forces regime forces in the latter half of the war. [...] Salah Abdullah, an Alawite born in 1967 in His experiences in Khanasir and the Aleppo Central Prison the town of Tayba, in the Safita countryside, and the long- demonstrate Abdullah’s extensive experience leading both standing number three of the Tiger Forces, was selected to his own forces and joint operations rooms in crucial, hard- lead the new brigade from day one. [...] His selection as the head of the 16th According to one biography of him published on Facebook Brigade, therefore, indicates that the Russians and the SAA by his supporters, Abdullah joined the 7th Division after view the brigade as filling the same strategic role that the graduating from the military academy in the late 1980s, Tiger Forces did all the way back in 2013, during the latter where he w. [...] Video of an units in Aleppo under one command following Damascus’ armored unit consisting of tanks, BMPs, and heavy artillery recapture of the city the month prior, and it now serves as the “traveling to Dara’a” was shared by members of the 16th main military force in the city and its countryside.
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