Army of Mujahideen

Mujahideen Army
Mujahideen Army
Arabic: جيش المجاهدين; Jaysh al-Mujahideen
	Logo of the Army of Mujahideen
Leaders	Lt. Col. Muhammad Juma Abdul Qader Bakur ("Abu Bakr"); Capt. Muhammad Shakerdi; Salim Abu Jaafar; Hammoud al-Barm †;
Dates of operation	2 January 2014 – 25 January 2017
Active regions	Aleppo Governorate, Syria
Ideology	Sunni Islamism
Size	5,000+–12,000 (own claim, 2014); 4,000 (own claim, May 2016); 8,000 (December 2016, Russian military claim)
Part of	Free Syrian Army (2016–17); Syrian Revolutionary Command Council (2014–15); Levant Front (2014–15); Fatah Halab (2015-2017); Ahrar al-Sham (since 2017);
Allies	Syria Revolutionaries Front; Levant Front; Sham Legion; Suqour al-Sham Brigade; Ahrar al-Sham; Al-Nusra Front (until 2017);
Opponents	Syrian Armed Forces; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; Syrian Democratic Forces; Al-Nusra Front (2017); Syrian Revolutionaries Front;
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Inter-rebel conflict during the Syrian Civil War; Battle of Aleppo (2012–16) Aleppo offensive (October 2015); 2016 Aleppo summer campaign; Aleppo offensive (October–November 2016); ; Al-Nusra Front–SRF/Hazzm Movement conflict;

The Army of Mujahideen (Arabic: جيش المجاهدين, Jaysh al-Mujahideen) was a Sunni Islamist rebel group formed in order to fight the Syrian government and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the Syrian Civil War. Originally a coalition of several Islamist rebel groups, it accused ISIL of disrupting "security and stability" in areas that had been captured from the Syrian government. During its establishment in January 2014, the spokesperson of the coalition said it would start operations in Idlib and Aleppo and gradually expand towards the rest of Syria. In December 2016, the Army of Mujahideen was briefly reorganized as Jabhat Ahl al-Sham (Arabic: جبهة أهل الشام; Front of the People of the Levant), but this formation soon fell apart during rebel infighting in January 2017.

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