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Mujahideen Army | |
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Arabic: جيش المجاهدين Jaysh al-Mujahideen | |
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Dates of operation | 2 January 2014 – 25 January 2017[5] |
Active regions | Aleppo Governorate, Syria |
Ideology | Sunni Islamism[6] |
Size | 5,000+[7]–12,000[8] (own claim, 2014) 4,000 (own claim, May 2016)[9] |
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Battles and wars | Syrian Civil War |
The Mujahideen Army (Arabic: جيش المجاهدين, Jaysh al-Mujahideen) was a Sunni Islamist rebel group formed in order to fight the Syrian government and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the Syrian Civil War.[18] Originally a coalition of several Islamist rebel groups, it accused ISIL of disrupting "security and stability" in areas that had been captured from the Syrian government.[19] During its establishment in January 2014, the spokesperson of the coalition said it would start operations in Idlib and Aleppo and gradually expand towards the rest of Syria.[5] In December 2016, the Army of Mujahideen was briefly reorganized as Jabhat Ahl al-Sham (Arabic: جبهة أهل الشام; Front of the People of the Levant), but this formation soon fell apart during rebel infighting in January 2017.