Hamza Division (Aleppo)

Hamza Division
Hamza Division
فرقة الحمزة‎; Furqat al-Hamza
	Official logo of the Hamza Division
Leaders	Brig. Gen. Sayf Bulad ("Sayf Abu Bakr"); Lt. Abdullah Halawa; Abu Jalal; Hasan Abdullah Kulli (Kurdish Falcons Brigade); Yasser Abu al-Sheikh †;
Dates of operation	2012–2013 (as Hamza Battalion); 2013–2025 (as Hamza Division)
Groups	Hamza Brigade; Northern Thunder Brigade; Mare' Resistance Brigade; Special Operations Brigade; Dhi Qar Brigade; Kurdish Falcons Brigade; Former: 1st Brigade; 5th Brigade; 51st Brigade; Free Syria Brigade; Samarkand Brigade (former, part of the Syrian Turkmen Brigades);
Headquarters	Mare, Aleppo Governorate; Military college near al-Bab
Active regions	Aleppo Governorate
Ideology	Syrian nationalism
Size	900 (February 2017); 2,200+ (self-claim, September 2017); 2,200-6,500 (2018)
Part of	Free Syrian Army; Syrian National Army Syrian Front for Liberation; Hawar Kilis Operations Room
Allies	Turkey; United States (until 2016); Azerbaijan; Al-Mu'tasim Brigade; Liwa Ahfad Saladin; Sultan Murad Division; Levant Front
Opponents	Islamic State; Syrian Democratic Forces; Syrian Arab Armed Forces; Libyan National Army; Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement (since 2017); Ahrar al-Sharqiya; Ahrar al-Sham; Armenia; Artsakh
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Al-Hasakah Governorate campaign (2012–13); Northern Aleppo offensive (March–June 2016); Battle of al-Rai (August 2016); Operation Euphrates Shield Northern al-Bab offensive (September 2016); 2016 Dabiq offensive; Battle of al-Bab; ; Operation Olive Branch; 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria; Northern Aleppo clashes (October 2022); 2024 Syrian opposition offensives; Operation Dawn of Freedom; Western Syria clashes; 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites; ; Second Libyan Civil War (since 2020) 2019–20 Western Libya campaign; ; 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war (alleged);
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The Hamza Division (Arabic: فرقة الحمزة) was a Syrian rebel group in northwestern Syria affiliated with the Syrian National Army, trained and equipped by the United States, the United Kingdom and Turkey as part of the Syrian Train and Equip Program. Formed in 2013, it cooperated with the Turkish Armed Forces in the Turkish occupation of northern Syria.

In 2018, Turkey "deployed 600 members of the Kurdish Falcon Brigade to join the Hamza Division" in "what may have been an.. [attempt] to counter accusations of anti-Kurdish discrimination". As of 2018, the Hamza Division is "made up of 200 Kurdish and 400 Arab fighters" trained and armed by Turkey. During the integration of Syrian rebel factions in 2025, the Hamza Division was reorganized into the 76th Division.