Qūwāt Sūriyā al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah (Organization)

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Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Qūwāt Sūriyā al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah (Organization) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Ḥaylawotho d'Suriya Demoqraṭoyto (Organization) HSD (Ḥaylawotho d'Suriya Demoqraṭoyto) Hêzên Sûriya Demokratîk‎ (Organization) Syrian Democratic Forces (Organization) SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) QSD (Quwat Suriya al-Dimuqratiya) قوات سوريا الديمقراطية (Organization)
Special note	Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found in	Accidental allies, 2021: CIP title page (SDF) galley (Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF); The fighting group that became the Syrian Democratic Forces grew from the kernel of small local defense forces in the early years of the Syrian civil war, with the majority of this initial cadre drawn from the Syrian Kurdish community; 2015 formed as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF, or the Arabic QSD, which stands for Quwat Suriya al-Dimuqratiya)) Wikipedia, viewed July 19, 2021: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF; Arabic: قوات سوريا الديمقراطية‎, romanized: Qūwāt Sūriyā al-Dīmuqrāṭīya (QSD); Kurdish: Hêzên Sûriya Demokratîk; Founded in October 2015, the SDF states its mission as fighting to create a secular, democratic and federalised Syria. The updated December 2016 constitution of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES) names the SDF as its official defence force. The primary opponents of the SDF are the various Islamist and Arab nationalist forces involved in the civil war, in particular the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Syrian National Army (TFSA), al-Qaeda affiliates, the Turkish Armed Forces, and their allies)