Ghuraba al-Sham

Ghuraba al-Sham
Ghuraba al-Sham
غرباء الشام
Leaders	Mahmud al-Aghasi (2003–2007)
Dates of operation	2003–2013
Active regions	Syria; Lebanon; Iraq
Ideology	Sunni Jihadism
Allies	Al-Nusra Front; (formerly); Ahrar ash-Sham; Ahrar al-Jazeera
Opponents	Syrian Armed Forces; People's Protection Units
Battles and wars	Syrian civil war Syrian Kurdish–Islamist conflict (2013-present); Battle of Ras al-Ayn;

Ghuraba al-Sham (Arabic: غرباء الشام Ghurabā' ash-Shām, "Strangers/Foreigners of the region of Syria") was a group of jihadists of Turkish and former Eastern bloc origin who smuggled foreign fighters to Iraq, intervened in Lebanon during the 2007 Lebanon conflict, and fought in Syria during the Syrian civil war. The group coordinated with Al-Nusra Front in clashes with the People's Protection Units in November 2012 and in January 2013. The group apparently shut down or disappeared in 2014.

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