Northern Storm Brigade

Northern Storm Brigade
لواء عاصفة الشمال
Liwa Asifat al-Shamal
Leaders
  • Mahmoud Naddom
  • Ammar Ibrahim Dadikhi  †
  • Samir Amouri (former)[1]
Dates of operation2011[1] – present
HeadquartersAzaz[1]
Active regionsAleppo Governorate[1]
IdeologySunni Islamism[1][2]
Secularism (formerly)[1]
Size1,100–2,000 (2012)
200 (2014)[1]
500 (January 2015)[3]
Part ofSyrian opposition Free Syrian Army
Islamic Front

Levant Front (since 2014)

Syrian National Army
Allies Turkey
Al-Tawhid Brigade (2012–2014)
Kurdish Front (formerly; 2014–2015)[6]
Opponents Syrian Arab Armed Forces
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant[7]
Tahrir al-Sham
Syrian Democratic Forces
Battles and warsSyrian Civil War

The Northern Storm Brigade (Arabic: لواء عاصفة الشمال, Liwā’ ’Āṣifat ash-Shamāl), also known as the Northern Hurricane Brigade, is a Syrian rebel group formed in 2011 and based in Azaz in northwestern Syria, near the border with Turkey. The leader and other members of the group were smugglers from Azaz and its surroundings before the Syrian Civil War.[1] The group retained exclusive control of the Bab al-Salam border crossing.[8]

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  6. ^ a b "Syrian Kurds, rebels find common enemy in ISIS". Al Monitor. 27 March 2014. Archived from the original on 28 March 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  7. ^ "Azaz Northern Storm Brigade". Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium. Archived from the original on 11 August 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  8. ^ "Syrian Rebel Leader Keeps Order On The Border". NPR. 4 December 2012. Archived from the original on 11 August 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2014.