Northern Storm Brigade

Northern Storm Brigade
Northern Storm Brigade
لواء عاصفة الشمال; Liwa Asifat al-Shamal
	; The logo used by the group;
Leaders	Mahmoud Naddom; Ammar Ibrahim Dadikhi †; Samir Amouri (former);
Dates of operation	2011 – present
Headquarters	Azaz
Active regions	Aleppo Governorate
Ideology	Sunni Islamism; Secularism (formerly)
Size	1,100–2,000 (2012); 200 (2014); 500 (January 2015)
Part of	Free Syrian Army; Islamic Front (formerly); Levant Front (since 2014); Syrian National Army
Allies	Turkey; Al-Tawhid Brigade (2012–2014); Netherlands (2015–2018); Kurdish Front (formerly; 2014–2015)
Opponents	Syrian Arab Armed Forces; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; Tahrir al-Sham; Syrian Democratic Forces
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Battle of Azaz (2012); Siege of Menagh Air Base; Inter-rebel conflict during the Syrian Civil War Northern Aleppo offensive (February–July 2014); ; Turkish involvement in the Syrian Civil War Operation Olive Branch; 2018 Syrian-Turkish border clashes; ;

The Northern Storm Brigade (Arabic: لواء عاصفة الشمال, Liwā’ ’Āṣifat ash-Shamāl), also known as the Northern Hurricane Brigade, is a Syrian rebel group formed in 2011 and based in Azaz in northwestern Syria, near the border with Turkey. The leader and other members of the group were smugglers from Azaz and its surroundings before the Syrian Civil War. The group retained exclusive control of the Bab al-Salam border crossing.

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