Army of Mujahideen
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جبهة أهل الشام Jabhat Ahl al-Sham Participant in the Syrian Civil War |
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Former logo of the Army of Mujahideen
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2 January 2014 – 24 January 2017 |
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| Area of operations | Aleppo Governorate, Syria |
| Strength |
5,000+–12,000 (own claim, 2014) |
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2 January 2014 – 24 January 2017
(Army of Mujahideen)
December 2016 – 25 January 2017
5,000+–12,000 (own claim, 2014)
Jabhat Ahl al-Sham (Arabic: جبهة أهل الشام; People of the Levant Front), main member group Army of Mujahideen (Arabic: جيش المجاهدين, Jaysh al-Mujahideen), was a coalition of Sunni Islamist rebel groups which formed in order to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the Syrian Civil War. The group accused ISIL of disrupting "security and stability" in areas that had been captured from the Syrian government. The spokesperson of the coalition said it would start operations in Idlib and Aleppo and gradually expand towards the rest of Syria.
The factions which formed the Army of Mujahideen largely emerged from the villages and towns of the Aleppo hinterland. 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. The three groups at the core of the alliance were Division 19, the Fastaqim Union and the Nour al-Din al-Zanki Islamic Brigades, which was also then part of the Authenticity and Development Front.
On 4 May 2014, the Army of Mujahideen announced the withdrawal of the Nour al-Din al-Zanki Islamic Brigades from the coalition. 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.
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