International Freedom Battalion

International Freedom Battalion
Tabûra Azadî ya Înternasyonal Participant in the Rojava conflict and the Syrian Civil War
Banner used by the International Freedom Battalion
Active	10 June 2015–present
Ideology	Revolutionary socialism Proletarian internationalism
Groups	MLKP, TKP/ML TİKKO, United Freedom Forces, Reconstrucción Comunista, TKEP/L, Devrimci Karargâh, RUIS, Bob Crow Brigade Henri Krasucki Brigade Antifascist Internationalist Tabor
Area of operations	Rojava, Syria
Allies	People's Protection Units, Women's Protection Units
Opponents	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Tell Abyad offensive 2015 Al-Hawl offensive Tishrin Dam offensive Al-Shaddadi offensive (2016) Manbij offensive Raqqa offensive (2016–present)

Syrian Civil War

The International Freedom Battalion (Turkish: Enternasyonalist Özgürlük Taburu, Kurdish: Tabûra Azadî ya Înternasyonal‎, Arabic: تابور الحرية العالمي‎‎), commonly abbreviated as IFB or EÖT, is an armed group consisting of leftist foreign fighters fighting alongside the People's Protection Units in the Syrian Civil War in support of the Rojava Revolution and against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The formation of the International Freedom Battalion was announced on 10 June 2015 in Serê Kaniyê (Ras al-Ayn). Inspiration for the group came from the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War. The political ideologies among many of the fighters include Marxism–Leninism, Hoxhaism, Maoism, and anarchism. Five of it's members are also a part of Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement.

The International Freedom Battalion is made up of fighters from left-wing armed groups (as well as individuals not part of any other groups) most of whom had been fighting with the YPG before the creation of the International Freedom Battalion. These groups include: