Mu'tasim Division

Mu'tasim Division
Mu'tasim Division
فرقة المُعتصم; Firqat al-Mu'tasim
	; Logo of al-Mu'tasim Division ; ; Flag of the Mu'tasim Brigade
Leaders	Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Hassan Khalil; Lieutenant Assad Nasser; Mustafa Sejari (political leader); Captain Anis Haj; Abu al-Abbas; Awad Abu Saqr (former military commander);
Dates of operation	4 August 2015—present
Allegiance	Syrian Interim Government
Headquarters	Mare'
Active regions	Aleppo Governorate, Syria
Size	500 (2016); 1,000 (2017);
Part of	Free Syrian Army Mare' Operations Room (2015–16); Hawar Kilis Operations Room (since April 2016); Syrian National Army Syrian Front for Liberation; ; Syrian Train and Equip Program
Allies	Turkey; United States; Sultan Murad Division; Hamza Division; Sham Legion; Descendants of Saladin Brigade (until 2017); Jaysh al-Islam (since 2018); Al-Rahman Legion (since 2018);
Opponents	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; Syrian Democratic Forces (since 2018)
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Northern Aleppo offensive (March–June 2016); Operation Euphrates Shield Battle of al-Bab; ; Operation Olive Branch;
Website	https://twitter.com/AlmotacemBrigad

The Mu'tasim Division (Arabic: فرقة المُعتصم, romanized: Firqat al-Mu'tasim), formerly the Mutasim Brigade (Arabic: لواء المعتصم, romanized: Liwa al-Mu'tasim), is a Free Syrian Army faction active in the northern Aleppo Governorate, based in the town of Mare'. The group was named after al-Mu'tasim (r. 833–842), an Abbasid caliph.

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