Operation Olive Branch order of battle
Order of battle
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This is the order of battle for the Operation Olive Branch, a joint Turkish Armed Forces/Syrian National Army attack on the People's Protection Units-held Afrin Canton.[1][2]
Turkey and allied forces
Turkey
Grey Wolves (claimed by SOHR)[11]
Syrian Interim Government
Syrian National Army
- First Legion
Northern Brigade[12]
Jaysh al-Ahfad[13]
Samarkand Brigade[14][15]
Muntasir Billah Brigade[10]
Ahrar al-Sharqiya[16]
Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror Brigade[10][15]
Waqqas Brigade[12]
Sham Legion (northern contingent)[17]
Sultan Suleiman Shah Brigade[15][18]
9th Division[19]
Jaysh al-Nukhba (northern sector)[4][20]
- Elite Battalion (Azadî Battalion)[21][22][13]
Jaysh al-Sharqiya[12]
Northern Falcons Brigade[12]
- Second Legion[23]
Sultan Murad Division[17]
Hamza Division[17]
- Kurdish Falcons Brigade[24]
Al-Mu'tasim Brigade[17]
- Men of War Brigade[12]
Authenticity and Development Front[12]- Elite Division[25]
- Third Legion[26]
Levant Front[17]
Conquest Brigade[12][27]
Northern Storm Brigade[23]
Northern Army[12][28]
51st Division[29]
Mustafa Brigade (ex-13th Division unit)[15]
1st Regiment[30]
Sultan Othman Brigade[12]
Island Revolutionaries[25]
Fastaqim Union remnants[31]
23rd Division (northern branch)[15][32]
Glory Corps[33]
- Unincorporated SNA factions
- First Legion
- Saladin Brigade[34][10][35]
- Ahl al-Diyar[36]
- Martyr Mashaal Tammo Brigade[34][35]
- Qamishli Shield[34]
- Afrin Shield[34]
- Tajama a-Thuwar al-Kurd (coalition of Kurdish units in the TFSA)[37]
- Mare' Military Council[13]
- Rebel reinforcements from Idlib
Democratic Federation of Northern Syria and allied forces
People's Protection Units (YPG)
Women's Protection Units (YPJ)
- Martyr Avesta Xabur Battalion (Kongreya Star volunteers)[44]
- Anti-Terror Units (YAT)[45]
Syriac Military Council (MFS)[46][47]
Army of Revolutionaries[48]
Kurdish Front[49]- Revolutionary Shield Brigade[50]
Northern Democratic Brigade[51][52]
- Idlib Military Council[52]
Afrin Region forces
- Self-Defence Forces (HXP)[53]
Civil Defence Forces (HPC)[54]- Asayish[55]
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
International Freedom Battalion[57] and Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement[58]
MLKP[59][60][61][62]
TKP/ML TİKKO[59][61]
United Freedom Forces[58]
TKEP/L[58][63]
RUIS[64]
Martyr Michael Israel Brigade (Antifascist Forces in Afrin)[65][66][62]
Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ)[69]
Êzîdxan Women's Units (YJÊ)[69]
Anti-Turkish insurgents in Afrin District (from June 2018)
- Afrin Falcons[70]
- Wrath of Olives operations room[71]
- Afrin Liberation Forces[72][73]