Lions of the East Army

Lions of the East Army
جيش أسود الشرقية Jaysh Usud al-Sharqiya Participant in the Syrian Civil War
Logo of the group.
Active	January 2015 – present
Groups	Lions of Sunna Brigade Lions of Umayyad Brigade Qadisiya Brigade Bayariq al-Shaitat Descendants of Aisha Battalion Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah Battalion Hamza Battalion Son of al-Qaim Brigade Mujahid Omar Mukhtar Brigade Bashair al-Nasr Brigade Ahwaz Brigade Shield of the Ummah Brigade Conquest Brigade Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr Group Lions of the Asima Brigade (former, joined Jaysh al-Islam)
Leaders	General commander: Abu Faisal Talas Salama Deputy commander: Abu Barzan al-Sultani Abdul Bari
Area of operations	Rif Dimashq Governorate Damascus Governorate Homs Governorate
Strength	350 (2016)
Part of	Authenticity and Development Front(former) Southern Front
Allies	Forces of Martyr Ahmad al-Abdo Revolutionary Commando Army Army of Free Tribes 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/

General commander: Abu Faisal Talas Salama
Deputy commander: Abu Barzan al-Sultani

Rif Dimashq Governorate
Damascus Governorate

Authenticity and Development Front(former)

Forces of Martyr Ahmad al-Abdo
Revolutionary Commando Army
Army of Free Tribes

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. Many of the group's fighters consisted of al-Shaitat tribesman from the Deir ez-Zor Governorate. The group was also active in Damascus city between January and July 2015, when its unit in Damascus merged into Jaysh al-Islam's 8th Brigade. 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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