Levant Front

Levant Front
الجبهة الشامية Jabhat al-Shamiyah Participant in the Syrian Civil War
Active	25 December 2014–18 April 2015; 18 June 2015–Present
Ideology	Sunni Islamism Salafism Islamic Democracy(depending on the member group)
Groups	Northern Storm Brigade Brigade of Conquest (northern Aleppo Governorate branch) Liwa Suyuf al-Sham (Azaz branch) Soldiers of Islam Brigade Northern Army
Leaders	Abu Amr (emir) Colonel Muhammad al-Ahmad (spokesman) Muhammad Abu Ibrahim (military commander) Abu Ahmad al-Jazrawi
Headquarters	Azaz, Aleppo Governorate, Syria
Area of operations	Aleppo Governorate, Syria
Strength	3,000 (December 2016, Russian military claim)
Part of	Fatah Halab Jaysh Halab Mare' Operations Room Hawar Kilis Operations Room Free Syrian Army
Allies	Turkey Sham Legion Syrian Turkmen Brigades (sometimes) Other FSA groups in northern Aleppo
Opponents	Syrian Armed Forces Syrian Democratic Forces Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Tahrir al-Sham
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Battle of Aleppo Inter-rebel conflict during the Syrian Civil War Turkish military intervention in Syria

25 December 2014–18 April 2015;

Sunni Islamism

Fatah Halab
Jaysh Halab
Mare' Operations Room
Hawar Kilis Operations Room

Syrian Civil War

The Levant Front (Arabic: الجبهة الشامية‎‎, Jabhat al-Shamiyah, also translated as the Sham Front or the Levantine Front) is a Syrian rebel group based around Aleppo involved in the Syrian Civil War. It was formed in December 2014.

The Levant Front's membership includes the major Sunni Islamist groups operating in northern Syria, representing a spectrum of ideologies from hardline Salafism to apolitical factions linked to the Free Syrian Army. The group imposes Sharia law where murder and apostasy in Islam are punishable by death. In Aleppo, media activists accusing the Levant Front of corruption and otherwise criticizing the group have received threats and faced reprisal attacks. Courts affiliated with the group have also been accused of summary killings by Amnesty International.

Following months of negotiations in Turkey and northern Syria between the Islamic Front (mainly the al-Tawhid Brigade), the Army of Mujahideen, the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, the Fastaqim Union, Liwa Ahrar Souriya and the Authenticity and Development Front, on 25 December 2014, the factions announced that they combined their forces into a joint command called the Levant Front. The US-backed Hazzm Movement joined the coalition on 30 January 2015, and announced its dissolution and merger with into other Levant Front factions on 1 March 2015.

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