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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
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Turkish Naval Forces[7]
- General Directorate of Security[8]
- National Intelligence Organization (MİT)[9][10]
Grey Wolves (claimed by SOHR)[11]

Olive Branch Operations Room
Syrian National Army
- First Legion
Jaysh al-Ahfad[12]
Northern Brigade[13]
Muntasir Billah Brigade[10]
Ahrar al-Sharqiya[14]
Samarkand Brigade[15][16]
Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror Brigade[10][16]
Sham Legion (northern contingent)[17]
Sultan Suleiman Shah Brigade[16][18]
9th Special Forces Division of Aleppo[19]
Jaysh al-Nukhba (northern sector)[4][20]
- Elite Battalion (Azadî Battalion)[21][22][12]
Jaysh al-Sharqiya[13]
Northern Falcons Brigade[13]
- Second Legion[23]
Sultan Murad Division[17]
Hamza Division[17]
- Kurdish Falcons Brigade[24]
Al-Mu'tasim Brigade[17]
- Men of War Brigade[13]
- Third Legion[25]
Levant Front[17]
Sultan Othman Brigade[13]
Mustafa Brigade (ex-13th Division unit)[16]
Glory Corps[27]
Fastaqim Union remnants[28]
23rd Division (northern branch)[16][29]
Authenticity and Development Front[13]
Waqqas Brigade[13]
1st Commando Brigade[13]
Northern Army[13]
Conqueror Lions Brigade[13]
Resolute Storm Brigade[13]
- Mare' Military Council[12]
- Military Police
- Free Police
- Ex-Free East Ghouta Police forces[30]
- First Legion

Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement[10][12][33][34]
Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria[10]
- Saladin Brigade (Descendants of Saladin Brigade remnant)[35][10][36]
- Ahl al-Diyar[37]
- Martyr Mashaal Tammo Brigade[35][36]
- Qamishli Shield[35]
- Afrin Shield[35]
- Tajama a-Thuwar al-Kurd (coalition of Kurdish units in the TFSA)[38]

Rebel reinforcements from Idlib
Jaysh al-Nasr (since 16 February)[13][39]
Jaysh al Thani (after February 16th)[13][40]
Ahrar al-Sham (after February 16th)[10][17][41]
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Democratic Federation of Northern Syria and allied forces
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People's Protection Units (YPG)
Women's Protection Units (YPJ)
- Martyr Avesta Xabur Battalion (Kongreya Star volunteers)[43]
- Anti-Terror Units (YAT)[44]
Syriac Military Council (MFS)[45][46]
Army of Revolutionaries[47]
Kurdish Front[48]
- Revolutionary Shield Brigade[49]
Northern Democratic Brigade[50][51]
- Idlib Military Council[51]

Afrin Region forces
- Self-Defence Forces (HXP)[52]
Civil Defence Forces (HPC)[53]
- Asayish[54]
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
International Freedom Battalion[56] and Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement[57]
MLKP[58][59][60][61]
TKP/ML TİKKO[58][60]
United Freedom Forces[57]
TKEP/L[57][62]
RUIS[63]
Martyr Michael Israel Brigade (Antifascist Forces in Afrin)[64][65][61]

Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ)[68]
Êzîdxan Women's Units (YJÊ)[68]
Anti-Turkish insurgents in Afrin District (from June 2018)
- Afrin Falcons[69]
- Wrath of Olives operations room[70]
- Afrin Liberation Forces[71][72]
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