Liwa Zainebiyoun

Liwa Zainebiyoun لواء زينبیون
Also known as	Hezbollah Pakistan[1][2]
Commander	Saqib Haider Karbalai (also known as Haj Haider from 2014 to 2017 unknown after the Haj Haider since 2017) †[3]
Dates of operation	late 2014 – present[4]
Allegiance	Iran (IRGC)
Active regions	Syria[4][5][6][7][8][9] Iraq (Limited)[10]  Yemen (allegedly)[11]
Ideology	Shia Islamism Jihadism[12][13] Khomeinism Wilayat al Faqih[14] Anti-Zionism[15][16][17][18] Anti-Americanism[19]
Slogan	إِن يَنصُرْكُمُ ٱللَّهُ فَلَا غَالِبَ لَكُمْ [Quran 3:160] "If Allah helps you, none can defeat you."[20][21][22]
Status	Active (Banned)[23]
Size	~Several hundreds (est. 2014)[18] c. 800+ (est. 2019)[18]
Part of	Axis of Resistance[24][25]
Allies	State allies Iran Iraq (Popular Mobilization Units)[26]  Russia[19] Syria  Yemen (Supreme Political Council) Non-State allies National Defence Forces[27] Liwa Fatemiyoun Hezbollah Afghanistan Liwa Abu al-Fadhal al-Abbas  Hezbollah Houthis
Opponents	State opponents  United States[19]  Israel[18]  Pakistan[28]  Yemen (Alimi government)  Saudi Arabia[18] Non-State opponents National Front for Liberation Free Syrian Army Syrian National Army[29] Islamic Front al-Nusra Front Tahrir al-Sham Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Ahrar al-Sham Syrian Democratic Forces Lashkar-e-Jhangvi[30]
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016) Aleppo offensive (October–November 2016)[31] Aleppo offensive (November–December 2016)[32] Siege of Deir ez-Zor Palmyra offensive (2017) Hama offensive (March–April 2017) Battle of Khasham[19] Northwestern Syria offensive (December 2019–March 2020)[33] War in Iraq (2013–2017)[34] Yemeni Civil War[11] Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir[35]
Designated as a terrorist group by	United States[19]  Pakistan

The Followers of Zainab Brigade (Arabic: لِوَاء الزَّيْنَبِيُون, romanized: Liwā’ az-Zaynabīyūn, Persian: لواء زينبیون or لشکر زينبیون, Liwa Zeinabiyoun or Lashkare Zeinabiyoun, Urdu: لواء زینبیون), also known as the Zainebiyoun Brigade or Zainebiyoun Division, is a Pakistani Shia Khomeinist militant group actively engaged in the Syrian Civil War.^[36][5] It draws recruits mainly from Shia Pakistanis living in Iran,^{[5] [37]} with some also Shia Muslim communities living in various regions of Pakistan.^[4][38]

It was formed and trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and operates under their command.^[5] Initially tasked with defending the Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque,^[6][7] it has since entered frontlines across Syria.^[4] Its dead are buried primarily in Iran.^[5][7] Approximately 158 of their fighters have died in Syria as of March 2019, excluding those killed in Israeli airstrikes.^[39] According to 2019 estimates, the total number of Pakistani fighters in the brigade barely exceeded 800.^[18]