Syrian Revolutionaries Front

Syrian Revolutionaries Front
Syrian Revolutionaries Front
جبهة ثوار سوريا
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Leaders	Jamal Maarouf (overall leader, northern branch); Col. Afif Suleiman (Idlib commander, resigned July 2014); Maj. Abu Osama al-Jolani (southern branch); Brig. Gen. Yahya al-Abdi (63rd Southern Division); Capt. Abu Hamza al-Naimi † (southern branch);
Dates of operation	December 2013 – 5 May 2015 (main Idlib and Aleppo branch); December 2013 – 31 July 2018 (southern branch) ;
Headquarters	Quneitra Governorate, Syria
Active regions	Daraa Governorate, Quneitra Governorate, Rif Dimashq Governorate, and Damascus Governorate, Syria
Ideology	Non-ideological (overall group) Islamic democracy (majority of groups); Secularism (some groups);
Size	10,000–15,000 (2014); 7,000 (2016);
Part of	Free Syrian Army Southern Front Southern Alliance; ;
Allies	Saudi Arabia (until 2017); Jordan (until 2018); Qatar; Jaysh al-Islam; Army of Mujahideen (formerly); Al-Nusra Front (sometimes) Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar (formerly); ; United States (until July 2017); Turkey (until 2015);
Opponents	Syria; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Khalid ibn al-Walid Army; ; Al-Nusra Front (sometimes); Jund al-Aqsa;
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Syrian opposition–Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant conflict; Battle of Aleppo (2012–present); Rif Dimashq Governorate campaign; Daraa Governorate campaign Daraa offensive (October 2014); First Battle of Al-Shaykh Maskin; Daraa offensive (January 2015); Daraa and As-Suwayda offensive (June 2015); Daraa offensive (June–July 2015); Second Battle of Al-Shaykh Maskin; Daraa offensive (March–April 2016); ISIL Daraa offensive (February 2017); ; 2014 Quneitra offensive; al-Nusra Front–SRF/Hazzm Movement conflict;

The Syrian Revolutionaries Front (Arabic: جبهة ثوار سوريا, Jabhat Thowar Suriya, SRF, also translated Syrian Rebel Front) is an alliance of 14 relatively moderate religious and some secular armed groups fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, formed in December 2013, thus according to Arutz Sheva further sidelining the FSA and its leadership Supreme Military Council. It was established as a response to the merger of Islamist Syrian rebels into the Islamic Front.

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