Al-Tawhid Brigade

al-Tawhid Brigade
لواء التوحيد Participant in the Syrian Civil War
Official logo of the Tawhid Brigade
Active	June 2013—2014 (central group, some remnants still use the name)
Ideology	Sunni Islamism
Leaders	Abdul Qader Saleh † (Top Commander July 2012–November 2013) Adnan Bakkour † (Top Commander November 2013–January 2014) Abdelaziz Salameh (Top Commander January 2014-?) Mohammed Hamadeen (Ahrar al-Shamal Brigade) Yusef al-Jader † (Senior commander in Aleppo) Yussef Al-Abbas † (Intelligence chief)
Headquarters	Aleppo
Area of operations	Aleppo Governorate Homs Governorate Al-Raqqah Governorate of Syria
Strength	10,000 (own claim) (Nov 2012) 11,000 (Oct 2013)
Part of	Free Syrian Army Syrian Revolutionary Command Council Syrian Islamic Liberation Front (formerly) Islamic Front
Merger of	Ahrar al-Shamal Brigade Fursan al-Jabal Brigade Daret Izza Brigade
Allies	al-Nusra Front Ahrar ash-Sham Jaysh al-Islam Ajnad al-Sham Islamic Union Army of Mujahedeen Alwiya al-Furqan Sham Legion
Opponents	Syrian Armed Forces Popular Protection Units (formerly) Ghuraba al-Sham Hezbollah Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Battle of Aleppo (2012–present) Battle of al-Qusayr (2013) 2013 Latakia offensive Syrian opposition-Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant conflict

Syrian Civil War

The al-Tawhid Brigade (Arabic: لواء التوحيد‎, translit. Liwa al-Tawhid, lit. 'Brigade of Oneness'‎), named after Tawhid, the "oneness of God," but often mistranslated as Unity Brigade, was an armed Islamist insurgent group involved in the Syrian Civil War.

The al-Tawhid Brigade was formed in 2012. Reportedly backed by Qatar, al-Tawhid was considered one of the biggest groups in northern Syria, dominating much of the insurgency around Aleppo.

Affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, in late 2013 it co-signed a joint statement calling for Sharia law and rejecting the authority of the Syrian National Coalition.

Originally, al-Tawhid was composed of three subunits, the Fursan al-Jabal Brigade, the Daret Izza Brigade and the Ahrar al-Shamal Brigade.

Its leader Abdul Qader Saleh died late 2013 in a devastating Syrian Army airstrike. Its northern branch, the Ahrar al-Shamal Brigade, was in 2014 reportedly "superseded" by the Northern Sun Battalion (Shams al-Shamal).

The Tawhid Brigade consisted was organized into three branches:

Around June 2013 the Tawhid Brigade was reorganised into nearly 30 sub-factions.

In November 2013, Al-Safwa Islamic Battalions left Al-Tawhid Brigade.

On 2 March 2014 the Northern Storm Brigade announced that they would join the Islamic Front under the leadership of the al-Tawhid Brigade. Also in 2014, the Euphrates Jarabulus Brigades left to join the Dawn of Freedom Brigades.