Opponents Syrian Armed Forces | ||
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Active December 2012 - November 2016 (some remnants remained active until January 2017) Groups Aleppo City Battalion
Aleppo of Shahbaa Brigade
Islam Brigade
Peace Brigade Leaders Mustafa Berro
(nom de guerre: Saqr Abu Quteiba; overall leader)
Ammar Sakkar
(Fastaqim Union spokesman) Area of operations Aleppo Governorate
Idlib Governorate Areas of operations Aleppo Governorate, Idlib Governorate Battles and wars Syrian civil war, Battle of Aleppo, Turkish military intervention in Syria Part of Syrian Revolutionary Command Council, Fatah Halab | ||
The Fastaqim Kama Umirt Union (Arabic: تجمع فاستقم كما أمرت, Tajammu Fastaqim Kama Umirt, 'Union of Be Upright as Ordered') was a rebel group active during the Syrian Civil War.
History
On 26 April 2015, along with other major Aleppo based groups, they established the Fatah Halab joint operations room.
On 2 November 2016, during the Aleppo offensive, Fastaqim Union fighters captured a military commander of Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki. In response, al-Zenki fighters attacked the Fastaqim Union's headquarters in the Salaheddine District and al-Ansari district of Aleppo. At least one rebel were killed and more than 25 wounded on both sides in the raid. The next day, the Levant Front and the Abu Amara Brigades began to patrol the streets to arrest any rebels taking part in the clashes. At least 18 rebels were killed in the infighting.
The group was mostly dissolved when the Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki and the Abu Amara Brigades eventually captured all positions of the Fastaqim Union in eastern Aleppo in November 2016. Dozens of rebels from the latter group surrendered and were either captured, joined Abu Amara Brigades's parent group Ahrar al-Sham, or deserted. Some remnants of the Union remained active, but they were considered very weak. As the rebel-held parts of Allepo were finally conquered by the Syrian Army in December 2016, the loyalist remnants of the Fastaqim Union were among the rebels that were evacuated from Aleppo to Idlib Governorate.
On 25 January 2017, the remaining members of the union's Aleppo branch joined Ahrar al-Sham. Former Fastaqim Union spokesman Ammar Sakkar explained that this move had become "a necessity", as the rebel factions had to unite in face of recent government gains, most notably the fall of rebel-held Aleppo. According to him "division has become illogical and would neither build a state nor establish a system of governance, which is an objective of the Syrian revolution".