Jaysh al-Nasr
The Army of Victory (Arabic: جيش النصر; Jaysh al-Nasr) is an armed opposition faction participating in the Syrian Civil War. Founded in August 2015 as a joint operations room of 16 member groups,[6] three of the groups later fully merged into Jaysh al-Nasr. The group was supplied with US-made BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missiles.[10]
"Army of Victory" redirects here. For Jaysh al-Fatah, sometimes mistranslated as "Army of Victory", see Army of Conquest.Army of Victory
August 2015[6] – present
- Falcons of al-Ghab
- Free Daraya Brigade
- Owais al-Qarani Battalion[7]
- Mutasim Billah Battalion
- Shuhada Tarmala Battalion[8]
- Farouq Army (remnants of the Farouq Brigades in northern Hama)
- Harakat al-Fedayeen
Left in February 2018:
- 111th Regiment
- Salvation Front
Qalaat al-Madiq (until May 2019)[9]
5,000[10]
National Front for Liberation (since May 2018)[11]
Fatah Halab (2015–16)[12]
North Hama Countryside Operations Room[13]
Syrian Armed Forces
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Jund al-Aqsa (since 2017)
Syrian Democratic Forces
Tahrir al-Sham (since 2019)
- Siege of Northern Homs
- 2015 Hama offensive
- Northwestern Syria offensive (October–November 2015)
- 2016 Latakia offensive
- 2016 Hama offensive
- Idlib Governorate clashes (2017)
- Hama offensive (March–April 2017)
- Hama offensive (September 2017)
- Northwestern Syria campaign (October 2017–February 2018)
- Turkish military operation in Afrin[14]
- Idlib demilitarization (2018–2019)
- National Front for Liberation–Tahrir al-Sham conflict
- Northwestern Syria offensive (April–August 2019)
- Northwestern Syria offensive (December 2019–March 2020)
History[edit]
Formation as a joint operations room[edit]
Jaysh al-Nasr was formed in early August 2015 as a joint operations room with the stated objective being the "liberation of the northern countryside of Hama, breaking the regime's first defense line toward the city of Hama." It was announced as a first step towards unifying the Free Syrian Army in Idlib and Hama provinces into a single operations room. The alliance initially comprised the following 16 groups:[6][15]