Allies Jabhat Thuwar al-Raqqa Ally Jabhat Thuwar al-Raqqa | ||
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Active 23 June 2015—late 2015/early 2016 Groups Tahrir Brigade (some members)Free Raqqa Brigade (formerly Jihad Brigade)Jund al-Haramayn Brigade (former)Ahrar al-Tabqa BrigadeUmanaa al-Raqqa BrigadeHarun al-Rashid BrigadeTall Abyad Revolutionaries FrontTall Abyad Revolutionaries (former member of Tall Abyad Revolutionaries Front) Leaders Maj. Gen. Abu Mohammed Kafr Zita (Abdul Karim Obeid) Area of operations Aleppo GovernorateRaqqa GovernorateHasakah Governorate Opponents Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Opponent Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Areas of operations Aleppo Governorate, Raqqa Governorate, Al-Hasakah Governorate | ||
Jaysh al-Salam (Arabic: جيش السلام, 'Army of Peace') is an operations room of Free Syrian Army factions that operates in northern and eastern Syria with the goal to attack IS in Raqqa. Components of the group later joined the Syrian Democratic Forces throughout 2016.
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As of late 2015/early 2016 the collation appears to be defunct, being superseded by various other groups and military councils within' the SDF.
Liwa Ahrar al-Raqqa
The Jihad in the Path of God Brigade (Arabic: لواء الجهاد في سبيل الله, translit. Liwa al-Jihad fi Sabeel Allah) is a rebel group that operated in eastern Aleppo Governorate. It is currently fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in eastern Aleppo province. The group acknowledges the Syrian opposition-in-exile government the Syrian National Council and the Supreme Military Council. The Jihad in the Path of God Brigade was reported to be part of the Euphrates Volcano operations room in late September 2014.
The group was later renamed as Liwa Ahrar al-Raqqa (Arabic: لواء أحرار الرقة, translit. Free Raqqa Brigade), which then joined the Syrian Democratic Forces in March 2016.
Liberation Brigade
Liwa al-Tahrir or the Liberation Brigade (Arabic: لواء التحرير) is a FSA-affiliated rebel group that was formed in the city of Ras al-Ayn, part of the northern Hasakah Governorate, in September 2014. Led by major general Abu Mohammed Kafr Zita, also called Abdul Karim Obeid, a former commander of the Farouq Brigades, the group joined the Euphrates Volcano operations room in coordination with the YPG soon after its formation. In mid-2015 Liwa al-Tahrir participated in the Tell Abyad offensive and jointly controlled the border crossing with Akçakale.
In early June 2016 the Tahrir Brigade's commander, Abdul Karim Obeid, attended and spoke at the funeral of Abu Layla, who was killed during the Manbij offensive, in Kobane.
In September 2016 tensions flared up between the YPG and Liwa al-Tahrir due to the perceived marginalization of FSA and Arab components of the Syrian Democratic Forces. Liwa al-Tahrir also refused to fight the Turkish Armed Forces and its allies during the Jarabulus offensive. In a video message to the United States, the group's commander called for the SDF to be reformed into a united army under the authority of the United States Central Command and threatened to leave the SDF and withdraw from Tell Abyad if the YPG continued to dominate the coalition. As a response, the YPG imposed a blockade on the villages controlled by the group. Hours later, Abdul Karim Obeid and dozens of his fighters crossed from Tell Abyad into Turkey and defected to the Turkish Army. 25 to 50 of them arrived in Jarabulus and defected to pro-Turkish rebels fighting the SDF, the remaining fighters stayed with the SDF.