Active 1 January – July 2015 Strength 5,000-10,000 | Leaders Col. Saber Safar † | |
Groups Syria Revolutionaries Front
Coming Victory Brigade
7th Division
Riyad al-Salehin Battalions of Damascus
Special Assignments Regiment of Damascus
Southern Swords Division
Hamza Division
1st Artillery Regiment
1st Assembly Area of operations Daraa Governorate
Quneitra Governorate Part of Free Syrian Army
Southern Front | ||
The First Army was created on 1 January 2015 in an effort to unify rebel ranks in southern Syria. Three prominent rebel units merged under this command structure.
History
During the 2015 Southern Syria offensive, the commander of the 1st Army, Colonel Saber Safar, was killed in action.
On 13 April 2015, it joined a number of other Southern Front affiliates in condemning the al-Nusra Front's ideology and discontinuing all forms of cooperation with it.
After the Daraa offensive (June–July 2015), the 1st Army disbanded and only the Hamza Division continues to use the name.
References
First Army (Syrian rebel group) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA