Opposition within Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and other nations

Iraqi Insurgency	Syrian Civil War	Other conflicts

Iraq-based opponents Iraqi Armed Forces · Iraqi Army · Iraqi Air Force · Special Forces · Iraqi Police Iraqi Kurdistan · Peshmerga · Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ Yekîneyên Berxwedana Şingal (de))[405] · Sinjar Defence Force (HPŞ)[405] · People's Defence Force (HPG)[406][407] Special Groups · Popular Mobilization Forces (Iraq) · Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq · Kata'ib Hezbollah · Badr Brigades Iraqi Turkmen Front[408] Shabak Militia[409]	Syria-based opponents[410] Syrian Armed Forces · Syrian Army · Syrian Air Force · National Defence Force · Ba'ath Brigades Syrian Opposition[411][412][413] · Free Syrian Army · Syria Revolutionaries Front · Islamic Front · Army of Mujahedeen[414] · al-Nusra Front[415] with localised truces and co-operation at times Syrian Kurdistan[416] · People's Protection Units (YPG) · Women's Protection Units (YPJ) · Syriac Military Council[417] · Sutoro[418] · Local guerrillas[419]	Lebanon-based opponents Lebanese Armed Forces[420] · Lebanese Army · Internal Security Forces Hezbollah[421] Egypt-based opponents Egyptian Armed Forces[422] · Egyptian Air Force · Egyptian Rapid Deployment Forces Libya-based opponents Libyan Armed Forces · Libyan Air Force[423] Abu Salim Martyrs Brigade (Libyan rebel group)[424] Algeria-based opponents Algerian Armed Forces[425] Afghanistan-based opponents Afghan Armed Forces[138] Taliban[426][427] Yemen-based opponents Yemeni Armed Forces[137] al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula[137] Houthis[428] West Africa-based opponents Nigerian Armed Forces[147] Niger Armed Forces[429] Chadian Armed Forces[430] Cameroonian Armed Forces[429] Benin Armed Forces[429]