Al-Rahman Legion
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فيلق الرحمن Participant in the Syrian Civil War |
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Official logo of Al-Rahman Legion
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| Active | November 2013–present |
| Ideology | Islamism |
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| Area of operations | Eastern Ghouta and eastern Qalamoun, Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria |
| Strength | 2,000-+3,000 |
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Free Syrian Army Unified Military Command of Eastern Ghouta |
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The al-Rahman Legion (Arabic: فيلق الرحمن, Faylaq al-Rahman), also called the al-Rahman Corps, is an Islamist Syrian rebel group affiliated with the Free Syrian Army operating mostly in Eastern Ghouta, in the outskirts of Damascus, but also in eastern Qalamoun. It is the main rebel group in Jobar and have received BGM-71 TOW missiles. The group's leader is Abd al-Nasr Shmeir, a captain who defected from the Syrian Army in early 2012.
Since the death of Zahran Alloush there have been conflicts between Jaysh al-Islam and other members of the Unified Military Command of Eastern Ghouta, along with associated groups such as al-Nusra Front and its Jaysh al-Fustat operations room. Ahrar ash-Sham have remained neutral.
On 18 February 2016, Ajnad al-Sham Islamic Union fighters based in eastern Ghouta announced the "full incorporation" of its fighters into al-Rahman Legion, though reiterating that its fighters based in the western Damascus suburbs of Darayya and Moadammiyyeh as well as in southern Damascus would still operate under the Ajnad al-Sham Islamic Union banner and were not a part of this merger.
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