The Army of the Levant identifies the armed forces of France and then Vichy France which occupied, and were in part recruited from, the French Mandated territories in the Levant during the interwar pe
French General Henri Gouraud on horseback inspecting French colonial troops at Maysalun.
Circassian cavalry serving as part of the Army of the Levant, with their commander Colonel Philibert Collet [fr].
The Levant Crisis, also known as the Damascus Crisis, the Syrian Crisis, or the Levant Confrontation, was a military confrontation that took place between British and French forces in Syria in May 194
British armoured cars moving through the streets of Damascus during the Levant Crisis in May 1945
Winston Churchill and Charles De Gaulle in a meeting in 1944
Sir Bernard Paget Commander of Middle East Command
Syrian President Shukri al-Quwatli declaring Syria's independence from France, 17 April 1946