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Considering most spruce simply refer to the group as broadly Islamist or moderate, the one credible source referring to the group as Salafist in 2012 was either representative of the groups ideology at the time which then evolved to a more classical Islamist vision, or it was wrong, and the claim Isn’t substantiated by the actual recoding they got it from, is overall it’s a safer bet to refer to the group as Islamist with salafist factions as not to discount the possibility. Also of that visi... Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
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| active = November 2012 – 2019?<ref name="BBC17Oct">{{Cite news |title=Syria crisis: Guide to armed and political opposition|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24403003|last=Sinjab|first=Lina|work=BBC|date=17 October 2013|access-date=19 May 2014}}</ref>
| ideology = [[Sunni]] [[Islamism]]<ref name="Lister1" /><ref name=ceip8April>{{cite web|url=http://carnegieendowment.org/syriaincrisis/?fa=55275|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413154759/http://carnegieendowment.org/syriaincrisis/?fa=55275|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 13, 2014|title=The Mujahedeen Army of Aleppo|publisher=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace|date=8 April 2014|access-date=19 May 2014}}</ref><br />[[Salafism]] (factions)<ref name="ctc270813">{{cite web |url=http://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/the-non-state-militant-landscape-in-syria |title=The Non-State Militant Landscape in Syria |last=Lund |first=Aron |publisher=[[CTC Sentinel]] |date=27 August 2013 |accessdate=22 November 2013 |archive-date=7 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007045801/http://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/the-non-state-militant-landscape-in-syria |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| clans = Unification Army<ref>{{cite web|url=http://civilwaralsham.com/the-northwest/2016/3/29/jaysh-al-tawhid-adf|title=Northern Homs based rebel group joins Authenticity and Development Front|access-date=2017-05-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170807232311/http://civilwaralsham.com/the-northwest/2016/3/29/jaysh-al-tawhid-adf|archive-date=2017-08-07|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />[[Lions of the East Army]] (formerly)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://en.deirezzor24.net/the-authenticity-and-development-front-cuts-all-of-its-ties-with-the-new-syrian-army/ |title=The Authenticity and Development front cuts all of its ties with the New Syrian Army. | en.deirezzor24.net |access-date=2018-09-02 |archive-date=2018-09-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902084544/http://en.deirezzor24.net/the-authenticity-and-development-front-cuts-all-of-its-ties-with-the-new-syrian-army/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />[[The White Shroud]]
| leaders = Khalid al-Hamad <ref name=ctc/>
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*[[Hama Governorate]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2017/03/analysis-insurgents-launch-major-offensive-against-assad-regime-in-hama-province.php|title=Analysis: Insurgents launch major offensive against Assad regime in Hama province - FDD's Long War Journal|website=FDD's Long War Journal|date=24 March 2017}}</ref>
| size = 5,000 (2015)<ref name="Lister1" />
| partof = {{flagicon image|Al-Liwaa.svg}} [[Levant Front]] (2014<ref name=ceip26dec />–15<ref name=disbandenglish>{{Cite news|title=Key Islamist group Shamiya Front resolves itself: source |url=https://en.zamanalwsl.net/news/9718.html|access-date=20 April 2015 |publisher=Zaman al-Wasl}}</ref>)<br />{{flagicon image|Flag of Mujahideen Shura Council (Syria).svg}} [[Mujahideen Shura Council (Syria)|Mujahideen Shura Council]] (2014–2015)<br />{{flagicon|Syrian opposition}} [[Free Syrian Army]] (from 2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rfsmediaoffice.com/en/2016/03/22/29498/#.Vyx-p_l97IU|title=Free Syrian Army – Statement|work=RFS Media Office|date=22 March 2016|access-date=6 May 2016|archive-date=11 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611180844/https://rfsmediaoffice.com/en/2016/03/22/29498/#.Vyx-p_l97IU|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/iwr_20161123_free_syrian_army1.pdf|title=The Free Syrian Army: A decentralized insurgent brand|last=Lister|first=Charles|issue=26|date=November 2016|journal=The Brookings Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World}}</ref><br />{{flagicon|Syrian opposition}} [[Syrian National Army]]<ref name="brigades">{{Cite web|url=http://en.suriyegundemi.com/syrian-rebel-brigades-participating-in-the-operation-olive-branch-18-january-2018/|title=Syrian Rebel Brigades Participating in the Operation Olive Branch [18 January 2018]|work=Suriye Gündemi|date=18 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180519121822/http://en.suriyegundemi.com/syrian-rebel-brigades-participating-in-the-operation-olive-branch-18-january-2018/ |archive-date=19 May 2018}}</ref><ref name=spiral>{{cite web|url=https://www.mei.edu/publications/way-out-russia-and-turkey-idlibs-spiral-violence|title=A way out for Russia and Turkey from Idlib's spiral of violence|work=[[Middle East Institute]]|author=Ömer Özkizilcik|date=1 July 2019}}</ref>
* [[Hawar Kilis Operations Room]] (from 2017)
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| allies = {{flag|Saudi Arabia}}<ref>https://links.org.au/gulf-and-islamism-syria-myths-and-misconceptions {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2025}}</ref><br />{{flag|Turkey}}<br />{{flagicon image|InfoboxHTS.svg}} [[Tahrir al-Sham]]<br />{{flagicon image|Logo of Jaysh al-Islam.jpg}} [[Jaysh al-Islam]]<br />{{flagicon image|Flag of Ahrar ash-Sham.svg}} [[Ahrar al-Sham]]<br />{{flagdeco|Syrian Opposition}} [[Saraya Ahl al-Sham]]
| opponents = {{flagdeco|Syria|1980}} [[Syrian Arab Armed Forces]]<br />{{flag|Iran}}<br />{{flag|Russia}}<br />{{flagicon image|flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.svg}} [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]]<ref name="haidara">{{cite web|url=http://eldorar.com/node/71720|title=ثوار القلمون يطردون تنظيم "الدولة" من مناطق جديدة|work=الدرر الشامية|date=15 March 2015}}</ref><br />{{flagicon image|InfoboxHez.PNG}} [[Hezbollah]]<br />{{flagicon image|PFLP-GC Flag.svg}} [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command|PFLP-GC]]<br />{{flagicon image|Flag of Syrian Democratic Forces.svg}} [[Syrian Democratic Forces]]
| battles = [[Syrian Civil War]]
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