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Kurdish Front

Kurdish Front
جبهة الأكراد
Jabhat al-Akrad

Participant in the Syrian Civil War
Logo of Jabhat al-Akrad until mid-2016[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Logo of Jabhat al-Akrad until mid-2016
Active 22 January 2013 – present
Groups
  • Shahba Women's Front
  • Tel Rifaat Revolutionaries Battalion
Leaders
Headquarters Afrin District and Sheikh Maqsood, Aleppo Governorate
Area of operations
Strength <3,000
Part of
Allies
Opponents
Battles and wars

Syrian Civil War

Website http://jabhetakrad.com/

Syrian Civil War

Jabhat al-Akrad (Arabic: جبهة الأكراد‎‎; Kurdish: Eniya Kurdan‎, lit. 'Kurdish Front'), full name: (لواء جبهة الأكراد لنصرة شعبنا السوريLiwa' Jabhat al-'Akrad l-Nusra Shaʿbnā al-Sūrī, "Kurdish Front Brigade to Protect the Syrian People"), is a predominantly Kurdish and Arabized Kurdish rebel faction participating in the Syrian civil war.

Jabhat al-Akrad operates in Kurdish and ethnically-mixed areas in Syrias, such as Sheikh Maqsood and Ashrafiyeh district of Aleppo city, Afrin Canton, the western SDF controlled parts of the Shahba region, and the northern Raqqa Governorate.

The group was originally formed as a brigade of the Free Syrian Army by Kurdish and Arab defectors from the Syrian Army. It was originally formed as a subgroup of Liwa Ahrar Souriya in the Raqqa Governorate on 22 January 2013. Since its founding it however also maintained close ties to the Democratic Union Party (PYD), including military coordination with its armed wing, the People's Protection Units (YPG).

Jabhat al-Akrad was allegedly expelled from the FSA Aleppo Military Council, led by Abdul Jabbar al-Oqaidi, on 16 August 2013 due to alleged PYD affiliations amid widespread clashes in northern Syria between predominantly Sunni Arab rebel groups and Kurdish militias led by the YPG. Among these clashes was the Battle of Tell Abyad in July 2013, when the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) captured the border town of Tell Abyad from Jabhat al-Akrad and the YPG.


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