Editing Shammar (section)

==Syria==
The Shammar tribe have been present in Syria since at least the 1920s when rivalry between Syrian and Iraqi Shammar culminated in violence reported by the [[League of Nations]] in 1926. Syrian Shammar Sheikh Diham al Hadi, the paramount Shammar sheikh in Syria,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stirling|first1=Walter Francis|title=Safety last|date=1953|publisher=Hollis and Carter|page=225|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PVU0AQAAIAAJ|language=en}}</ref> conducted an attack at the end of March 1926 upon 'Ajil al Yawar, a Sheikh of the Iraqi Shammar.<ref name="IraqReport1926">{{cite book|title=Iraq, Report on Iraq Administration|date=1926|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|page=58|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Je5QAQAAMAAJ|language=en |quote=... the quarrel between Shaikh 'Ajil al Yawar of the 'Iraq Shammar and Diham al Hadi of the Syrian Shammar. These two shaikhs are rivals with many old scores between them, but the issue of the time was the aftermath of Diham's attack on 'Ajil at the end of March, 1926...}}</ref> In April 1959 however, the [[CIA]]'s [[Foreign Broadcast Information Service]] reported that the Iraqi and Syrian branches of the Shammar were able to bury their differences, both joining an alliance with the [[Syrian Baath Party]] against a common enemy.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Service|first1=United States Foreign Broadcast Information|title=Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts|date=1959|page=20|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzAjAQAAMAAJ|language=en|quote=Apr. 8, 1959 The alliance between the leaders of the Syrian Bath Party with Ahmad Ujayl, the Shaykh of Shammar in Iraq, and Daharn al-Hadi, the Shaykh of Shammar in Syria, shows how principles could be sacrificed to plot against Iraq....}}</ref>

The current leader of the Syrian Shammar is Sheikh [[Humaydi Daham al-Hadi]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Gupta|first1=Rahila|title=Rojava's commitment to Jineolojî: the science of women|url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/rahila-gupta/rojava-s-commitment-to-jineoloj-science-of-women|website=openDemocracy|language=en|date=9 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="Janes360"/><ref name=Gutman/> His son Bandar al-Humaydi is military leader of [[al-Sanadid Forces]], a Shammar militia formed in 2013 nominally to protect the tribe's interests from [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|ISIL]].<ref name="Janes360">{{cite web|title=SDF plays central role in Syrian civil war|url=http://www.janes360.com/images/assets/333/57333/SDF_plays_central_role_in_Syrian_civil_war__1_.pdf|website=IHS Jane's 360|publisher=[[IHS Markit|IHS]]|access-date=28 February 2017|pages=3–4|date=20 January 2016}}</ref><ref name="france">{{cite web|url=http://www.france24.com/en/20160314-focus-syria-sanadid-sunni-force-islamic-state-group|title=Syria: Sunni force takes up arms against IS group|publisher=France24|date=14 March 2016|access-date=22 June 2016}}</ref><ref name=Gutman>{{cite news |title=Syrian Arab militias dispute they received U.S. airdrop of ammunition |first=Roy |last=Gutman |url= http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/middle-east/article40532349.html |newspaper=McClatchyDC |date=20 October 2015 |access-date=2 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151022144245/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/middle-east/article40532349.html |archive-date=22 October 2015}}</ref>