Ideology Sunni Islam | Leaders Abu Mohamed Al-Joulani | |
Area of operations Quneitra Governorate
Daraa Governorate Part of Syrian Revolutionary Command Council Opponents Syrian Armed Forces
National Defense Force
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Battles and wars Syrian Civil War
2014 Quneitra offensive | ||
The Jabhat Ansar al-Islam (Partisans of the Islam Front) is an independent Islamist Syrian rebel group active in the Quneitra and Daraa Governorates. The Jabhat Ansar al-Islam group is reportedly among dozens of Syrian rebel groups that have in the past been supplied with US-made BGM-71 anti-tank missiles and SA-7 manpads with US approval.
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