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Islamic State of Syria

Jabhat Fateh al-Sham
جبهة فتح الشام
Participant in the Syrian Civil War and the
Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon
Flag of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham.svg
Flag of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (since July 2016)
Active 23 January 2012 – 28 January 2017
Ideology

Salafism

Leaders Abu Mohammad al-Julani (top emir)
Abu Abdullah al-Shami (senior member)
Ahmad Salama Mabruk  (senior member)
Abu Hajer al-Homsi  (top military commander)
Headquarters
Area of operations  Syria (Primarily in Northwest Syria, around the Idlib and Aleppo Provinces)
 Lebanon
Strength 20,000
Part of al-Qaeda
Mujahideen Shura Council (2014–present)
Army of Conquest (2015–17)
Originated as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamic State of Iraq
Became Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham logo.jpg Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham
Allies
Opponents

State opponents

Non-state opponents

Shi'ite groups

Islamic State and Islamic State affiliates

Battles and wars

Syrian Civil War

Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon

Military intervention against ISIL


Salafism

State opponents

Non-state opponents

Shi'ite groups

Islamic State and Islamic State affiliates

Syrian Civil War

Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon

Military intervention against ISIL

Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (Arabic: جبهة فتح الشام‎‎, transliteration: Jabhat fatḥ ash-Shām, "Front for the Conquest of the Levant"), formerly known as the al-Nusra Front (Arabic: جبهة النصرة لأهل الشام‎‎, transliteration: Jabhat an-Nuṣrah li-ahli ash-Shām, "The Victory Front for the People of the Levant", often abbreviated to JN), al-Qaeda in Syria, or al-Qaeda in the Levant, was a Salafist jihadist terrorist organization fighting against the forces of the Syrian government in the Syrian Civil War, with the aim of establishing an Islamic state in the country before merging into Tahrir al-Sham with five other major jihadi groups based in Idlib and Aleppo governorates. It was openly self acknowledged as the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda until 2016, at which point it rebanded and alleged to have cut all ties to any "external entity", however it did not explicitly mention breaking away from Al-Qaeda nor renouncing their oath of allegiance to Ayman al-Zawahiri. The group also operates in neighboring Lebanon. In early 2015, the group became one of the major components of the powerful jihadist joint operations room named the Army of Conquest, which took over large territories in Northwestern Syria.


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