The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) organized between 10,000 and 15,000 Afghan militants into the Fatemiyoun Brigade and deployed them to Syria to fight alongside pro-Assad forces.

Authors

• Person: Not available Organization: CSIS
  War by Proxy: Iran's Growing Footprint in the Middle East - CSIS

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• War by Proxy: Iran's Growing Footprint in the Middle East - CSIS www.csis.org CSIS via serper

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• Syria location
• IRGC-QF entity
• Assad regime entity
• Fatemiyoun Division entity