Free Idlib Army

Free Idlib Army
Free Idlib Army
جيش إدلب الحر
Leaders	Top commanders, since July 2017: Col. Afif Suleiman (overall commander, since 2019); Lt. Col. Suhaib Leoush (overall commander, until 2019); Capt. Naji Mustafa (deputy commander); Capt. Dumar Qanatri (chief of staff); Other commanders: Lt. Col. Nasha'at Haj Ahmad (Mountain Hawks Brigade); Lt. Col. Ahmed al-Saud (13th Division); Former: Capt. Hassan Haj Ali (Mountain Hawks Brigade and overall commander, until July 2017); Col. Ali al-Samahi † (chief of staff, assassinated in April 2017); 1st Lt. Mohamed Khalid Bayoush (Northern Division and alternate deputy commander, until July 2017); Lt. Col. Fares Bayoush (former Northern Division and deputy commander, resigned in January 2017); Amin Haj Ali † (field commander, killed in March 2019);
Dates of operation	19 September 2016 – present
Group(s)	Mountain Hawks Brigade; Northern Division; 13th Division; Saraqib Revolutionaries Front;
Active regions	Northwestern Syria Idlib Governorate; Aleppo Governorate; Hama Governorate; Latakia Governorate;
Ideology	Syrian nationalism
Size	6,000 fighters (including 200 officers, late 2016);
Part of	Free Syrian Army Hawar Kilis Operations Room; National Front for Liberation; Fatah Halab (2016)
Allies	Sham Legion; Ahrar al-Sham; 21st Combined Force; Tahrir al-Sham (occasionally); Qatar; Saudi Arabia (2017); Turkey; United States (until July 2017);
Opponents	Syrian Arab Armed Forces; Islamic State; Syrian Democratic Forces; Jund al-Aqsa; (since 2017); Tahrir al-Sham (occasionally);
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Inter-rebel conflict during the Syrian Civil War; Battle of Aleppo (2012–16) Aleppo offensive (September-October 2016); ; Turkish military intervention in the Syrian Civil War; Syrian Kurdish–Islamist conflict (2013–present); 2016 Hama offensive; Idlib Governorate clashes (2017); Hama offensive (March–April 2017); Hama offensive (September 2017); Northwestern Syria campaign (October 2017–February 2018);

The Free Idlib Army (Arabic: جيش إدلب الحر Jaysh ʾIdlib al-Ḥarr) is a Syrian rebel coalition consisting of 3 armed groups from northwestern Syria affiliated with the Free Syrian Army: the 13th Division, the Northern Division, and the Mountain Hawks Brigade

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