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which had been established by the French during the 1930s. In 1938, the Troupes Spéciales numbered around 10,000 men and 306 officers (of whom 88 were French, mainly in the higher ranks). A majority of the Syrian troops were of rural background and minority ethnic origin, mainly Alawites, Druze, Kurds, Circassians and Bosniaks. By the end of 1945, the army numbered about 5,000

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