Army of Mujahedeen

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Not to be confused with Jaish al-Mujahideen (Iraq).
Army of Mujahedeen
Participant in the Syrian Civil War
Flag of the Army of Mujahedeen (Syria).png
Logo of the Army of Mujahedeen
Active 2 January 2014 – 6 May 2015[1]
Ideology Sunni Islamism[2]
Leaders Cap. Mohammed Shakerdi[3]
Sheikh Tawfiq Shahabuddin (Former)[4]
Lt. Col. Abu Bakr (Former)[5]
Headquarters Aleppo Governorate, Syria
Area of operations Syria
Strength More than 5,000[6]–12,000[7]
Part of Free Syrian Army
Syrian Revolutionary Command Council[8]
Levant Front(former)[9][10]
Fatah Halab[11]
Rad al-Mazalem[12][13][14][15]
Allies Syria Revolutionaries Front
Islamic Front
al-Nusra Front
Ajnad al-Sham Islamic Union
Sham Legion
Alweiat Al-Furqan
[16]
Opponents Syrian Armed Forces
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant[17]
Battles and wars Syrian Civil War

The Army of Mujahedeen (Arabic: جيش المجاهدين‎‎, Jaysh al-Mujahedeen) is a coalition of Islamist rebel groups which formed in order to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the Syrian Civil War.[18] The group accused ISIL of disrupting "security and stability" in areas that had been freed from the control of the Assad government.[19] The spokesperson of the coalition said it would start operations in Idlib and Aleppo and gradually expand towards the rest of Syria.[1]

The factions which formed the Army of Mujahedeen largely emerged from the villages and towns of the Aleppo hinterland.[20][21] The Army does not have a political program, and although the member groups have an Islamist identity, they were largely non-ideological Free Syrian Army affiliated groups earlier in the Syrian Civil War.[20] The three groups at the core of the alliance were Division 19, Fastaqim Kama Umirt and the Nour al-Din al-Zanki Islamic Brigades, which was also part of the Authenticity and Development Front.[20] On 4 May 2014, the Army of Mujahedeen announced the withdrawal of the Nour al-Din al-Zanki Islamic Brigades from the coalition.[4] On 3 June 2014, the Army announced the expulsion of Division 19's Liwaa al-Ansar unit and its leader, Abu Bakr, accusing them of theft and kidnapping.[5] Charles Lister, of the Brookings Doha Center, described the Army of Mujahedeen as being a shadow of its former self by August 2014, partially due to a reduction in support it had received from foreign states.[22] Fastaqim Kama Umirt left the group around December 2014.[10]

In September 2014, the United States began planning weapon supplies to the group,[23] and in the same month, fifty of the groups fighters were given military training in Qatar and supplied with BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missiles in a covert CIA program.[24]

On 6 May 2015, it, along with 13 other Aleppo-based groups, joined the Fatah Halab joint operations room.[11]

It announced its support to Turkey against the PKK.[25]

Numerous factions of the group, including the al-Noor Islamic Movement, Liwaa Amjad al-Islam and the al-Quds Brigades left to join the Thuwar al-Sham Battalions in April 2015.[26]

Member groups

19th Division (FSA):

Former members

See also

References

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  9. ↑ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aI3yAmNGW1vLpJCOrhiVLqpUUIX9PG1RNsCqJGGfhxI/edit
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  12. ↑ https://twitter.com/IvanSidorenko1/status/721936076928114689
  13. ↑ https://twitter.com/Rd_Almzalm
  14. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/rd.almzalm/
  15. ↑ https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/field-report-islamist-rebels-attack-syrian-army-hama-map-update/
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  27. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/4kaajt/ten_brigades_and_battalions_of_the_fsa_join_jaysh/d3dgveh
  28. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsUdlDO4SHw

External links

  • Army of Mujahedeen on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (Arabic)
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