# Operation Olive Branch order of battle

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.

## Turkey and allied forces

Turkey
* Turkish Armed Forces
** Land Forces
*** Second Army
**** 4th Corps (Turkey)
***** 1st Commando Brigade
**** 7th Corps (Turkey)
***** 3rd Commando Brigade (Turkey)
** Special forces
** Air Force
** Gendarmerie General Command
*** Gendarmerie Special Public Security Command
**** Gendarmerie Special Operations (JÖH)
**** Village guards
* Turkish Naval Forces
** SAS EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal)
** SAT
* General Directorate of Security
** Police Special Operation Department (PÖH)
* National Intelligence Organization (MİT)
Grey Wolves (claimed by SOHR)
Olive Branch Operations Room (Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army)
* Victory Bloc
** Elite Army
*** Elite Battalion (Azadî Battalion)
** Sham Legion (part of the National Front for Liberation since May 2018)
** Army of Grandchildren
** Northern Brigade
* First Legion
** Samarkand Brigade
** Muntasir Billah Brigade
** Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror Brigade
** Conquest Brigade (also part of the Levant Front)
* Second Legion
** Sultan Murad Division
*** Sultan Suleiman Shah Brigade
** Hamza Division
*** Kurdish Falcons Brigade
** Al-Mu'tasim Brigade
* Third Legion
** Levant Front
*** Northern Storm Brigade
*** Ahrar al-Sham (also part of the Syrian Liberation Front)
** Northern Army
** Glory Corps
* Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement (also part of the Syrian Liberation Front)
* Fastaqim Union
* Mare' Military Council
* Ahrar al-Sharqiya
* Ahl al-Diyar
* 9th Special Forces Division
* Army of Victory (since 16 February)
* Saladin Brigade (Descendants of Saladin Brigade remnant)
* Martyr Mashaal Tammo Brigade
* Qamishli Shield
* Afrin Shield
* Tajama a-Thuwar al-Kurd (coalition of Kurdish units in the TFSA)
* 23rd Division
* Mustafa Brigade (ex-13th Division unit)
* Northern Hawks Brigade
* Vakkas Brigade
* Mustafa Regiment
* 1st Commando Brigade
* Conqueror Lions Brigade
* Resolute Storm Brigade
* Authenticity and Development Front
* Sultan Othman Brigade
* Men of War Brigade
* 5th Regiment
* Second Army
* Justice Union
* Syrian Interim Government's Ministry of Defense
** Military Police
* Free Police
** Ex-Free East Ghouta Police forces
Southern front (non-TFSA units):
* Free Idlib Army (part of the National Front for Liberation since May 2018)
** Mountain Hawks Brigade
* Syrian Liberation Front elements (part of the National Front for Liberation since August 2018)
** Army of Mujahideen remnants

## Democratic Federation of Northern Syria and allied forces

Syrian Democratic Forces
* People's Protection Units (YPG)
** YPG International Battalion
*** American, British and German fighters
* Women's Protection Units (YPJ)
** Martyr Avesta Xabur Battalion (Kongreya Star volunteers)
* Anti-Terror Units (YAT)
* Army of Revolutionaries
** Kurdish Front
** Revolutionary Shield Brigade
* Syriac Military Council (MFS)
* Northern Democratic Brigade
** Idlib Military Council
Afrin Region forces
* Self-Defence Forces (HXP)
* Civil Defence Forces (HPC)
* Asayish
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
* People's Defence Forces (HPG)
International Freedom Battalion and Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement
* MLKP
* TKP/ML TİKKO
* United Freedom Forces
** THKP-C/MLSPB
** DKP
* TKEP/L
* RUIS
* Martyr Michael Israel Brigade (Antifascist Forces in Afrin)
** Anarchist Struggle
Sinjar Alliance
* Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ)
* Êzîdxan Women's Units (YJÊ)
Anti-Turkish insurgents in Afrin District (from June 2018)
* Afrin Falcons
* Wrath of Olives operations room
* Afrin Liberation Forces
Pro-government forces ("Popular Forces")
* National Defence Forces
* Baqir Brigade
* Militias from Nubl and al-Zahraa