Liwa Ahrar Souriya
| Free Men of Syria Brigade | |
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لواء أحرار سوريا Participant in Syrian Civil War |
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| Active | December 2012—present |
| Ideology | |
| Leaders |
Colonel Qassem Saad al-Din |
| Headquarters | Azaz, Aleppo Governorate, Syria |
| Area of operations | Aleppo Governorate, Syria |
| Strength | 2,500 (self-claim in August 2013) |
| Part of |
Levant Front (2014-15) |
| Allies | |
| Opponents | |
| Battles and wars | |
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Colonel Qassem Saad al-Din
Levant Front (2014-15)
Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki (since November 2016)
The Free Men of Syria Brigade (Arabic: لواء أحرار سوريا; Liwa Ahrar Souriya) is a group of Syrian rebel fighters affiliated with the Free Syrian Army which has been active during the Syrian Civil War.
In December 2012 the group signed a declaration that rejected the authority of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces and proposed to establish an Islamic state, although its leader later withdrew from the declaration and recognized the National Coalition.
In October 2015, during the Russian military intervention in Syria, Liwa Ahrar Souriya's headquarters in the northern Aleppo Governorate was hit by a Russian airstrike which killed 7 of its fighters.
Since November 2015, the group has participated in the shelling of Aleppo's Sheikh Maqsood neighborhood, controlled by the People's Protection Units as part of the Syrian Democratic Forces.
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