10th Mechanized Division (Syria)

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• 18th Mechanized Brigade
• 62nd Mechanized Brigade
• 51st Armored Brigade
• 58th Armored Brigade
• 122nd Artillery Regiment{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/GregoryPWaters/status/1155137981914603521?t=T8DDEod-CD7YYCzNvBD7BQ&s=19|title=122nd Artillery regiment belongs to the 10th Division|author=Gregory Waters|website=Twitter|date=27 July 2019|access-date=12 February 2024}}

In the 1982 Lebanon War, the 10th Armoured Division was deployed south of the Beirut-Damascus road, and inside Beirut, and consisted of the 76th and 91st Tank Brigades – equipped with T-62s and BMP-1s – and the 85th Mechanized Brigade, equipped with T-55s and BTR-60s.Tom Cooper, {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20041119111958/http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_279.shtml Syrian Tank-Hunters in Lebanon, 1982]}}, Air Combat Information Group The division was also assigned control of the 20th Commando Battalion as well.

In the same year, the division was returned to Syria, and participated in the suppression of the Muslim Brotherhood Rebellion. The division was also reported to have taken place in the 1982 Hama massacre. After that, the division was returned to Lebanon, and remained there until the withdrawal of the Syrian army from the country in 2005.

In 2001 Richard Bennett's estimate of the Army order of battle reported that the 10th Mechanized Division was headquartered in Shtoura, Lebanon, part of the 2nd Corps.Richard M. Bennett, [http://www.meforum.org/meib/articles/0108_s1.htm The Syrian Military: A Primer], Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, August/September 2001. Its main units were in 2001 deployed to control the strategic Beirut-Damascus highway with the 123rd Mechanized Brigade near Yanta, the 51st Armored Brigade near Zahlé in the Beqaa Valley and the 85th Armored Brigade, deployed around the complex of positions at Dahr al-Baidar.

In Syria, the division was reported to have become involved in the two battles in al-Qusayr starting on 19 May 2013, as part of the larger al-Qusayr offensive, launched in early April 2013 by the Syrian Army and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah,{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/jordan-arrests-8-syrian-refugees-suspected-of-inciting-camp-riots-in-troubled-camp/2013/04/21/7a06a3c0-aa5a-11e2-9e1c-bb0fb0c2edd9_story.html |title=Syrian opposition calls on Hezbollah to stay out of Syria's civil war |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=22 August 2017 |archive-date=5 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205060928/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/jordan-arrests-8-syrian-refugees-suspected-of-inciting-camp-riots-in-troubled-camp/2013/04/21/7a06a3c0-aa5a-11e2-9e1c-bb0fb0c2edd9_story.html |url-status=dead }} with the aim of capturing the villages around the rebel-held town of al-Qusayr and ultimately launching an attack on the town itself.{{cite web|url=http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/04/21/Activists-Syrian-regime-provides-Hezbollah-aerial-shield-in-Qusayr-.html|title=Activists: Syrian regime provides Hezbollah aerial shield in Qusayr|date=21 April 2013 |publisher=|accessdate=25 October 2014}} al-Qusayr is in Homs Governorate, near the border with Lebanon. The region was strategically important as a supply route for rebels fighting Syrian government forces in Homs,{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-crisis-lebanon-idUSBRE93K0DN20130421|title=Syria fighting flares both sides of Lebanese border|work=Reuters|accessdate=25 October 2014|date=21 April 2013}} and for its proximity to government-supporting areas along the coast. In course of the Ithriyah-Raqqa offensive in 2016, the division's chief-of-staff, Major General Hassan Saado, was killed. Since 2019, elements of the division are being trained by Russian officers in Safita, Tartous.

The 58th Brigade had not existed in any meaningful way since at least late 2016 and the 85th Brigade was moved to the newly formed 6th Division in 2015. The 51st Armored Brigade was formed after 2011 as a new armored unit under the command of the 10th Division. The 18th Brigade had moved to the Republican Guard by late 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mei.edu/publications/lion-and-eagle-syrian-arab-armys-destruction-and-rebirth#pt9|title=The Lion and The Eagle: The Syrian Arab Army’s Destruction and Rebirth|website=Middle East Institute|author=Gregory Waters|date=18 July 2019|access-date=20 September 2022}} In 2021, the 18th Brigade, formerly part of the 30th Division, was brought back to the late unit.[https://www.zamanalwsl.net/news/article/137433/ الحرس الجمهوري".. تشكيلات جديدة لتعزيز حماية الأسد منها "اقتحام نسائى" (صور وأسماء)]

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