Army of the Revolution

Not to be confused with Army of Revolutionaries.

Army of the Revolution
Arabic: جيش الثورة
Jaysh al-Thawra
Leaders
  • Ahmed Ibrahim al-Qasim (overall commander since December 2017, Mu'tazz Billah Army commander) [1]
  • Suleiman al-Sharif (Abu Kanan) (overall commander until December 2017) [1]
  • Capt. Iyad Qadr[2] (former overall commander and Muhajireen and Ansar Brigade commander)
  • Lt. Col. Mohammed Hassan Salama (Dawn of Islam Division commander)[3]
  • Capt. Bara Nabulsi[4] (Mu'tazz Billah Army commander, since September 2017)
  • Omar Sharif[2] (infantry commander)
  • Abu Ali Mustafa[2] (anti-armour unit commander)
  • Firas Abu Hamza[2] (artillery unit commander)
  • Abu Bakr al-Hasan[2] (official spokesman)
  • Col. Khalid Nabulsi[4] (Mu'tazz Billah Army commander, until September 2017)
  • Abdullah al-Sharif †[5] (engineering battalion commander)
  • Shaher al-Zubani †[6] (Martyr Walid Qaisi Brigade commander)
  • Maher al-Masri (Abu Hudhayfah al-Shami) †[7] (Yarmouk Army commander)
Dates of operation4 December 2016 – 31 July 2018
Active regions
Size7,500+ fighters[2]
Part ofSyrian opposition Free Syrian Army
Allies
Opponents
Battles and warsSyrian Civil War
Websitehttps://twitter.com/althawraarmy?lang=en

The Army of the Revolution (Arabic: جيش الثورة; Jaysh al-Thawra) was a Syrian rebel alliance affiliated with the Southern Front of the Free Syrian Army. It was composed of 5 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.[8]

  1. ^ a b "Syrian War Daily – 3rd of December 2017". 3 December 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f @Syria_Rebel_Obs (5 December 2016). "INFOGRAPHIC EXCLUSIVE - Creation of the most powerful FSA - Southern Front faction : Jaysh al-Thawra" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ^ "THE MODERATE REBELS: A GROWING LIST OF VETTED GROUPS FIELDING BGM-71 TOW ANTI-TANK GUIDED MISSILES". Hasan Mustafas. 5 August 2015.
  4. ^ a b "The appointment of a new commander of the army (Mu'taz Billah)". All4Syria. 11 September 2017.
  5. ^ "(Army of the Revolution) battalion commander mourns engineering in the countryside of the eastern shield". All4Syria. 17 June 2017.
  6. ^ "The killing of a military commander in the army of Mu'taz Billah". Al Etihad Press. 6 May 2017. Archived from the original on 2 March 2019. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  7. ^ ~ Joško Barić (13 December 2017). "Syrian War Daily – 13th of December 2017 | Syrian War Daily". Syrianwardaily.wordpress.com. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  8. ^ "Four factions constitute a "revolution army alliance" in the countryside of Daraa". Enab Baladi. 4 December 2016.