Fatah Halab
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فتح حلب Fatah Halab Participant in the Syrian Civil War |
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Logo of Fatah Halab
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| Active | 26 April 2015 – 21 January 2017(in the Aleppo Governorate, until 1 December 2016 within southeastern Aleppo) |
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Aleppo, Syria (until 1 December 2016) Aleppo Governorate, Syria (from 1 December 2016) |
| Area of operations | Aleppo Governorate, Syria (from 1 December 2016 they are no longer active in the city centre) |
| Strength | +8,000 (16 October 2016) |
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Fatah Halab (Arabic: فتح حلب, lit. 'Conquest of Aleppo'), or Aleppo Conquest, was a joint operations room of Syrian rebel factions operating in Aleppo, Syria. Succeeding the Aleppo Liberation operations room, its establishment was announced on 26 April 2015. It states that its aim is to conquer Aleppo City from Syrian regime forces.
In an October 2015 publication, the Washington D.C.-based Institute for the Study of War considered Aleppo Conquest as one of the "powerbrokers" in Aleppo Province, being both "anti-regime" and "anti-ISIS."
Since the inter-rebel conflicts, defections and mergers which started on 21 January 2017, Fatah Halab has become largely defunct.
The operations room includes both Western-backed groups and Islamist groups. It includes some groups that also participate in the Islamist Ansar al-Sharia operations room, but not others, such as al-Nusra Front. Previously al-Nusra coordinated with other groups through the Aleppo Operations Room.
The number of groups participating increased after its founding, and by 18 June 2015 there were 31 groups. On 28 July 19 FSA-linked groups joined it.
As of October 2016[update] they are around 8,000 fighters spread out over a myriad of groups of varying sized. The following are the largest groups that participate in the operations room.
On 13 May 2016, Amnesty International accused the Fatah Halab coalition of "repeated indiscriminate attacks that may amount to war crimes". It also reported their alleged use of chemical weapons.
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