Strength 1,000+ Area of operations Idlib Governorate | Opponents Syrian Armed Forces Opponent Syrian Armed Forces | |
Active 18 February 2014 – 28 July 2014 Allies Al-Nusra Front, Free Syrian Army, Islamic Front Battles and wars Syrian civil war, 2014 Idlib offensive | ||
Jaysh al-Sham (Arabic: جيش الشام, "Army of the Levant") was a rebel group that was active during the Syrian Civil War. The group began when the Suqour al-Sham brigade called Suyouf al-Haq split from its parent organization because it did not want to participate in the fighting between Suqour al-Sham and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).
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In July 2014, the Liwa Dawoud unit defected from Jaysh al-Sham to ISIS, bringing with them 1000 men and 10 tanks. Jaysh al-Sham claimed that it had expelled them. The group was disbanded on 28 July 2014, giving the remaining affiliated groups the option to join other groups.
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Jaysh al-Sham (2014) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA