Coastal Shield Brigade (Arabic: لواء درع الساحل, romanized: Liwāʼ Dirʻ al-Sāḥil) is a Syrian Assadist militant organization formed in January 2015. It announced its operations in February 2025, after the fall of the Assad regime.

The group was officially founded on 1 January 2015, in Latakia province as a local miltia for Republican Guard. The group started recruitment of soldiers in late May of the same year.^[1] Since 2015, no evidence of significant combat operations from the group was presented, its unknown what happened to the group after 2015 either.^{[citation needed]} In 2025, after the fall of the Assad regime, the group published a video showing the its establishment against the Military Operations Command and the Syrian Transitional Government^{[clarification needed]} which was spread by the Syrian Popular Resistance.^[5][6] They established the Coastal Brigade near the Latakia Mountains in the Latakia Governorate to fight against Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in their original stronghold. He also called for Alawites and previous supporters of Bashar al-Assad to "take arms" against HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa.^[7] Fatiha stated in the video about the Coastal Shield Brigade's establishment to the escalation of violations by Ahmad al-Sharaa’s authority^{[clarification needed]} after the attacks on the Alawites in the cities of the Syrian coast, stressing the brigade’s responsibility for any targeting of al-Sharaa’s authority on the coast and outside the Syrian coast.^[8][9]

Fatiha stated the Coastal Shield Brigade would take responsibility for any operations done against Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham in the Latakia Governorate.^[10] According to Turkish media, Fatiha was notorious for his alleged involvement in drug trafficking, bribery, kidnapping and extrajudicial killings during the Assad regime.^[11] Fatiha likely used resources and human networks developed under the Assad regime to establish the Coastal Shield Brigade.^[2]

The number of members that the shield coast brigade has is unknown, estimates say around 50-100 active fighters, however this is not verified by any sources.^{[citation needed]}