- Institutional emblem · official · carried by Syrian state forces (Ministry of Defence)
- State affiliation · Syria
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
Institutional emblem: Flag of the Syrian Ministry of Defence (2025– ) — carried by Syrian state forces (Ministry of Defence), not issued to this record. THE POST-TRANSITION FLAG, AND THE DATE IS THE POINT. This record is the new national military assembled since January 2025, which REPLACED the dissolved Assad-era army rather than inheriting it — so an Assad-era emblem here would be the exact anachronism the atlas's chronology rule exists to prevent. The flag shipped is the one adopted after the new state symbols of 13 March 2025: dark green, charged with the golden eagle of the new state emblem and the ministry's name. Commons dates the file to 2025 and credits the original to the Ministry of Defence; the transition and the adoption of the new symbols are separately established in the module's own reporting. NOT SHIPPED, DELIBERATELY: the "Emblem of the Syrian Armed Forces" (Commons, public domain, adopted 23 March 2026) was fetched and rendered alongside this one. It is the same institution's identity in emblem form, on a transparent ground, and it disappears at the 18x12px the formations index uses where this flag still reads as a dark green field. One institution takes one mark. FILE: Wikimedia Commons "Flag of the Syrian Ministry of Defense.svg", public domain. 46KB optimised to 40KB — editor metadata removed, coordinate precision reduced to two decimals on an 1800-unit canvas. Geometry, colours and viewBox unaltered. Inherited by the corps and divisions below; hts-historical, which sits under this record and predates the institution, authors its own absence of a mark and is unaffected.
State affiliation: Syria.
The smaller square mark is a Vigil category device, drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role — not an official insignia.
In brief
The corps for Aleppo, Afrin, Manbij and the Turkish border — the 60th, 62nd, 76th and 80th Divisions, three of them built from Turkish-backed factions, commanded by a former Nusra and HTS Aleppo-sector commander, and the corps that inherits the northern zones Türkiye's operations created.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. 4 subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination reported
- Sources
- 3 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- Aleppo city and province, Afrin, Manbij and the frontier with Türkiye
- Notable history
- The northern corps is where the Turkish-backed half of the war's winners became the state's: the compilation assigns it the 60th, 62nd, 76th and 80th Divisions, three of which were formed from Syrian National Army factions that Türkiye had organised, paid and directed since 2016, and names its commander as a former Nusra and HTS commander of the Aleppo sector. Its area contains Afrin, whose Turkish-backed garrison forces carry the war's most documented abuse record, and the border crossings that are the transitional state's main trade artery. The compilations also place the 60th Division here, while the ministry's own integration announcements place the SDF brigades under a 60th Division in Hasakah; that discrepancy is carried on the division's record rather than resolved.
- Strengths
- The state's largest city and its principal land border, under a corps whose divisions know the ground.
- Limitations
- Divisions whose factional patrons in Ankara have not gone away, an Afrin file that is the transition's abuse record, and a corps announced rather than demonstrated. No strength or basing is published.
Subordinate formations
60th DivisionDivision · subordination reported62nd DivisionDivision · subordination reported76th DivisionDivision · subordination reported80th DivisionDivision · subordination reportedRows are layout only — position and order carry no hierarchy, importance, sequence or strength. Every record shown is an immediate subordinate of the selected organisation.
Lineage & institutional history
One of five regional corps announced in late June 2026; official confirmation of the corps layer was pending in the compilation this record rests on, and the grouping is carried as reported.
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System access
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Assessed as of — 2026-06 Last reviewed — 2026-09-09
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