Kurdish Front

For the Kurdish Islamist group that was merged into Ahrar ash-Sham, see Kurdish Islamic Front.

Kurdish Front
جبهة الأكراد
Jabhat al-Akrad
Leaders
Dates of operation22 January 2013 – present
Group(s)
  • Shahba Women's Forces[3][13][14]
  • Tel Rifaat Revolutionaries Battalion[15]
  • Victory Battalion (2013)[12]
Active regions
IdeologyPluralist democracy[6]
Kurdish interests[6]
Democratic socialism
Federalism
Factions:
Democratic confederalism
Communalism
Size<3,000
Part of
Allies People's Protection Units[17]
Northern Democratic Brigade
Shahba Forces
Levant Front (2014–15, known as al-Tawhid Brigade until December 2014)[18]
Al-Nusra Front (until 2014)
Opponents Islamic State[19]
Al-Nusra Front
Syria Syria
 Turkey
Syrian National Army (since 2017)
Saladin Ayubi Brigade (2013)
Battles and warsSyrian Civil War
Websitehttp://jabhetakrad.com/

The Kurdish Front (Arabic: جبهة الأكراد, transliterated: Jabhat al-Akrad; Kurdish: Eniya Kurdan, former full name: لواء جبهة الأكراد لنصرة شعبنا السوري Liwa' Jabhat al-'Akrād an-Nuṣrah Shaʿbnā al-Sūrī, "Brigade of the Kurdish Front to Support Our Syrian People") is a predominantly Kurdish Syrian rebel faction participating in the Syrian Civil War.

The Kurdish Front operates in Kurdish and ethnically-mixed areas in northern Syria, such as the Sheikh Maqsood and Ashrafiyeh districts of Aleppo city, Afrin Canton, the Shahba region, and the northern Raqqa Governorate.[21] It also fought as part of Fatah Halab in the Bustan al-Pasha, Haidariya, and Handarat districts of Aleppo city[18] until November 2015, when Fatah Halab declared war on the Army of Revolutionaries.[22]

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  8. ^ "Kurds Front to Shahba residents: be patient, we are coming". Hawar News Agency. 3 September 2016. Archived from the original on 12 November 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  9. ^ "The second course of the Kurdish Front finished". Hawar News Agency. 27 May 2017. Archived from the original on 30 June 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  10. ^ ""Turkey not a friend of any people, not even its own people"". Firat News Agency. 21 September 2017.
  11. ^ a b "The announcement of the formation of the first military regiment in Shahba". Hawar News Agency. 6 October 2017.
  12. ^ a b "Mohammed Abu Adel in brief". Hawar News Agency. 18 September 2017. Archived from the original on 23 January 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  13. ^ "تشكيل أول كتيبة عسكرية لنساء مناطق الشهباء" (in Arabic). Hawar News Agency. Archived from the original on 27 August 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  14. ^ ypj mediacenter (12 August 2016). "عفرين- اختتام دورة عسكرية لنساء مناطق الشهباء (كتيبة الشهيدة جيان احرص)". Retrieved 1 September 2016 – via YouTube.
  15. ^ "Kurds Front: we will resist to the last gasp". Hawar News Agency. 24 October 2016. Archived from the original on 25 October 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  16. ^ Wladimir van Wilgenburg (16 August 2013). "FSA Removes Jabhat al-Akrad From Council". Transnational Middle-East Observer.
  17. ^ van Wilgenburg, Wladimir (27 March 2014). "Syrian Kurds, rebels find common enemy in ISIS". Al Monitor. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  18. ^ a b "The Kurdish Front: We are fighting the Syrian regime and ISIS and have received support". Arabi 21. 4 May 2015.
  19. ^ "Rebels demand help as fighting rages against ISIS in Ghouta". The Daily Star. 3 July 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  20. ^ Sheikho, Youssef (28 May 2013). "Syria: Border Clashes Pit FSA Against Kurds". Al-Akhbar. Archived from the original on 16 September 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  21. ^ Genevieve Casagrande (22 November 2016). "THE ROAD TO AR-RAQQAH: BACKGROUND ON THE SYRIAN DEMOCRATIC FORCES" (PDF). Institute for the Study of War.
  22. ^ "Free Syrian Brigade declares Sheikh Maqsud a military zone". Enab Baladi. 29 November 2015.