Active 2013–present Strength 1,500 (late 2015) | Leaders Maj. Jamil al-Saleh Headquarters Al-Lataminah | |
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Allies Jaysh al-Nasr, Army of Conquest, 1st Coastal Division, Elite Army, Mountain Hawks Brigade Similar Syrian Arab Air Force, Free Syrian Army, Russian Ground Forces, Liwa Abu al‑Fadhal al‑Abbas, Syrian Armed Forces | ||
Jaysh al-Izza or the Army of Glory (Arabic: جيش العزة), formerly the Union of Glory ((Arabic: تجمع العزة ،-Tajamul al-Izza), is a Syrian rebel group affiliated with the Free Syrian Army active in northwestern Syria, mainly in the al-Ghab Plain in northern Hama and its surroundings. The group have been supplied with anti-tank missiles by the United States, including 9K111 Fagots and BGM-71 TOWs.
History
On 30 September 2015, the first day of the Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War, 2 Russian bombs with 8-10 submunitions struck the group's headquarters and arm depots in a cave in the village of Al-Lataminah in northern Hama.
During the 2016 Hama offensive in September 2016, Jaysh al-Izza used a BGM-71 TOW missile to blow up a low-flying Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopter, which they alleged to be Russian.