Jaysh al-Izza

Army of Glory
Army of Glory
جيش العزة; Jaysh al-Izza
	Logo ; Frequently used flag
Leaders	Maj. Jamil al-Saleh (commander-in-Chief); Col. Mustafa al-Bakour (general commander); Capt. Manaf Maarati (deputy commander, until October 2019); Capt. Mustafa Maarati (spokesman, until October 2019)
Dates of operation	2013–present
Group(s)	Homs al-Adiya Brigades;
Headquarters	Kafr Nabl area (August 2019-February 2020), Jisr al-Shughur (per pro-government reports), formerly al-Lataminah
Active regions	Hama Governorate; Idlib Governorate; Latakia Governorate;
Ideology	Sunni Islamism
Size	3,000 (late 2015); September 2019: 2,500 (HTS defector claim); Over 3,000 (pro-government media claim); ; ≤3500 (December 2021) ;
Part of	Free Syrian Army; Jaysh al-Nasr (2015)
Allies	Tahrir al-Sham; Guardians of Religion Organization; Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria; Ajnad al-Sham; Malhama Tactical; National Front for Liberation; Syrian National Army; Turkey
Opponents	Syrian Arab Armed Forces; Russia; Iran; Hezbollah; Arab Nationalist Guard; Eagles of the Whirlwind; Ba'ath Brigades; Syrian Resistance
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Siege of Northern Homs; 2014 Hama offensive; Insurgency in Idlib; Al-Ghab offensive (July–August 2015); Northwestern Syria offensive (October–November 2015) (Russian intervention); 2015 Hama offensive; 2016 Latakia offensive; 2016 Hama offensive; Hama offensive (March–April 2017); Hama offensive (September 2017); Northeastern Hama offensive (2017); Syrian Liberation Front–Tahrir al-Sham conflict; Idlib demilitarization (2018–2019); Northwestern Syria offensive (April–August 2019); Northwestern Syria offensive (December 2019–March 2020);

The Army of Glory (Arabic: جيش العزة, romanized: Jaysh al-Izza), formerly the Union of Glory (Arabic: تجمع العزة, romanized: Tajamu‘ al-‘Izza), is a Sunni Islamist Syrian rebel group affiliated with the Free Syrian Army active in northwestern Syria, mainly in the al-Ghab Plain in northern Hama and its surroundings. Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia have supplied the group with anti-tank missiles including 9K111 Fagots and BGM-71 TOWs. The group has also expressed its disapproval of international efforts such as the Astana and Sochi agreements for de-escalating the war in Syria, and has opposed Russia's involvement in the war. Jaysh al-Izza also made efforts to join the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation which includes other prominent Syrian opposition groups in Idlib such as Ahrar al-Sham and the Sham Legion, but did not do so out of complications with the integration about which Jaysh al-Izza's leadership did not elaborate.

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