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Revolution Army (Syria)

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Strength
  
7,500+ fighters

Revolution Army (Syria)

Active
  
4 December 2016 – present

Groups
  
Yarmouk Army Mu'tazz Billah Brigade Muhajireen and Ansar Brigade Hasan ibn Ali Brigade

Leaders
  
Capt. Iyad Qadr (overall commander and Mujahidreen and Ansar Brigade commander) Gen. Bashar al-Zoubi (Yarmouk Army commander) Omar Sharif (infantry commander) Abu Ali Mustafa (anti-armour unit commander) Firas Abu Hamza (artillery unit commander) Abu Bakr al-Hasan (official spokesman)

Area of operations
  
Daraa Governorate Quneitra Governorate

Part of
  
Free Syrian Army Southern Front

The Army of the Revolution is a Syrian rebel alliance affiliated with the Southern Front of the Free Syrian Army. It is composed of 4 FSA factions which mainly operated in the Daraa Governorate in southwestern Syria. One of its commanders stated that the group is a "temporary operations room" due to the separation between western and eastern Daraa, and that the "door is open" for other groups to join the alliance.

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Yarmouk Army

The Yarmouk Army (Arabic: الجيش اليرموك‎‎; transliteration: Jaysh al-Yarmouk), originally known as the Yarmouk Brigade, is a prominent FSA rebel group operating in the Quneitra and Daraa governorates. The group is one of the units that has received BGM-71 TOW missiles. It was led by the defected Syrian Army general Bashar al-Zoubi. It joined the Southern Front on 14 February 2014 and the Hawks of the South coalition on 27 December 2014.

In January 2016, the United Sham Front joined the group.

Muhajireen and Ansar Brigade

The Emigrants and Helpers Brigade (Arabic: لواء المهاجرون والأنصار‎‎; transliteration: Liwa al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar) was one of the earliest FSA groups formed in the Daraa Governorate. The group is affiliated with the Supreme Military Council and has received TOW and HJ-8 anti-tank missiles. It is one of the members of the Daraa Military Council. The group is led by Captain Iyad Khaddour and Khalid Fathallah, the former of which became the overall commander of the Revolutionary Army.

Mu'tazz Billah Brigade

The Mu'tazz Billah Brigade (Arabic: لواء المعتز بالله‎‎; transliteration: Liwa al-Mu'tazz Billah), named after al-Mu'tazz, is a FSA group active in Daraa. It also received TOW missiles from the Military Operations Center based in Jordan. The group has clashed with the Islamic Muthanna Movement. It was also previously part of the Daraa Military Council.

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