Jaysh Usud al-Sharqiya

Lions of the East Army
جيش أسود الشرقية Jaysh Usud al-Sharqiya Participant in the Syrian Civil War
Active	January 2015 – present
Leaders	Talas Salama Abdul Bari
Area of operations	Rif Dimashq Governorate Damascus Governorate Homs Governorate
Part of	Authenticity and Development Front(former) Southern Front
Allies	Forces of Martyr Ahmad al-Abdo Revolutionary Commando Army Jaysh al-Islam
Opponents	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Syrian Armed Forces
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War 2016 Abu Kamal offensive Eastern Qalamoun offensive (September–October 2016) 2017 southern Syria offensive
Website	https://asoodalsharqia.wordpress.com/

Talas Salama

Rif Dimashq Governorate
Damascus Governorate

Authenticity and Development Front(former)

Forces of Martyr Ahmad al-Abdo
Revolutionary Commando Army

Syrian Civil War

The Lions of the East Army (Arabic: جيش أسود الشرقية‎‎; Jaysh Usud al-Sharqiya) is a Syrian rebel group formed in January 2015 and is based in southeastern Syria. The group is also active in Damascus since 28 January 2015. It mainly focused on defeating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the eastern Syrian Desert, where it gained control over large areas in March 2015.

The group captured US-made BGM-71 TOW missiles from ISIL in the eastern Qalamoun Mountains in January 2015.

In late November 2015, many rebels from the Lions of the East Army dissolved into their ally the New Syrian Army.

A month later they left Authenticity and Development Front.

In July 2016, the group's positions near the Hadalat border crossing with Jordan was hit by airstrikes from the Russian Air Force.

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