Islamic Resistance Front in Syria Russia Hezbollah Sootoro Ba'ath Brigades (Until 2019) Popular Committees (Until 2019) Amal Movement Lebanese National Resistance Front (1982–1991) March 8 Alliance The Eagles of the Whirlwind (Arabic: نسور الزوبعة, Nusour al Zawba'a) is the armed wing of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.

[19] In November 2019, Ba'athist authorities initiated crackdown on armed SSNP militias across the country, and dismantled Eagles of Whirlwind.

The SSNP-L found its natural allies in the Palestinian guerrillas, mainly Fatah and the PFLP, as well as in its former bitter enemies: left-wing Arab nationalist movements, the Syrian Ba'ath Party and the communists.

The Eagles developed during the 1980s where they attacked and harassed both the Lebanese Forces and the Israeli Army, with some members using suicide bombings to destroy groups of enemy factions.

One of the most prominent sparks of resistance was the assassination of two Israeli soldiers at the Wimpy Café in the middle of Hamra Street, west Beirut, by party member Khaled Alwan.

[22] In 1983, the SSNP joined the Lebanese National Salvation Front alongside the Marada Brigade, a Christian militia allied with Damascus.

[24] The Syrian Eagles also fought alongside Hezbollah and the Syrian Armed Forces against various rebel and jihadist groups, notably during the battle of Maaloula where the town, inhabited by Christians (like most of the Eagles including a large number of them are Christians), had fallen into the hands of Sunni Islamist insurgents of the al-Nusra Front.