The Syria–Lebanon campaign, also known as Operation Exporter, was the invasion of Syria and Lebanon in June and July 1941 by British Empire forces, during the Second World War.
Australian troops among the ruins of the Sidon Sea Castle, Lebanon, July 1941
Captured French Martin 167F at Aleppo 1941
Indian troops outside Damascus
11 Squadron RAF Bristol Blenheim bombing Beirut, 1941
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].