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==Background==

The coalition includes [[Islamist]]s, military defectors, and former civilians.<ref name="ceip8April"/><ref name=ceip26dec>{{Cite news|title=The Levant Front: Can Aleppo's Rebels Unite?|url=http://carnegieendowment.org/syriaincrisis/?fa=57605|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226221548/http://carnegieendowment.org/syriaincrisis/?fa=57605|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 26, 2014|date=26 December 2014|access-date=25 February 2015|publisher=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace}}</ref><ref name="saudi">{{cite web|url=http://brown-moses.blogspot.nl/2014/04/the-fighting-in-abu-kamal-albukamal.html|title=The Fighting in Abu Kamal (Albukamal): Background and Analysis|work=Brown Moses Blog|date=12 April 2015|access-date=9 November 2015}}</ref> Although the alliance uses [[Syrian independence flag]]s and symbols, it does not identify itself as part of the [[Free Syrian Army]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aymennjawad.org/14161/the-factions-of-abu-kamal|title=The Factions of Abu Kamal|publisher=Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi|date=18 December 2013|access-date=25 February 2015}}</ref> One of the groups involved was the [[Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement]], which was also part of the [[Army of Mujahideen]],<ref name=ceip8April/> though the Army of Mujahideen announced on 4 May 2014 that the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement had withdrawn from the coalition.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jeish al-Mujahideen Charter – Comment and Translation|url=http://gohasnail.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/jeish-al-mujahideen-charter-comment-and-translation/|access-date=19 May 2014|date=4 May 2014|publisher=Goha's Nail}}</ref> The Authenticity and Development Front operated American-made [[BGM-71 TOW]] [[anti-tank missile]]s captured from the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]].<ref name=moderate>{{cite web|url=https://hasanmustafas.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/the-moderate-rebels-a-complete-and-growing-list-of-vetted-groups-fielding-tow-missiles/|title=THE MODERATE REBELS: A GROWING LIST OF VETTED GROUPS FIELDING BGM-71 TOW ANTI-TANK GUIDED MISSILES|work=Hasan Mustafas|date=5 August 2015|access-date=8 August 2017|archive-date=2 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602182613/https://hasanmustafas.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/the-moderate-rebels-a-complete-and-growing-list-of-vetted-groups-fielding-tow-missiles/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Member Groups==