Syrian Arab Coalition

The Syrian Arab Coalition is claimed by the U.S. government as an alliance of programmatically exclusively ethnic Arab militias established during the Syrian Civil War. In this narrative, it consists of exclusively ethnic Arab component groups of the polyethnic Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance. However, no reference for the "Syrian Arab Coalition" can be found outside of the communication of the U.S. administration. The term "Syrian Arab Coalition" has been described as an invention without substance, for political communication, to mitigate Turkish aversion against U.S. support for the SDF due to the latter's strong ethnic Kurdish component. In February 2017, it was reported that the Syrian Arab Coalition forces made up about 20,000 out of the SDF's 50,000 fighters.