Sham Legion
The Sham Legion (Arabic: فَيْلَق الشَّام, Faylaq al-Shām[1]) is an alliance of Sunni Islamist rebel groups formed in March 2014, during the Syrian Civil War.[1] The alliance was formed from 19 different groups,[22] some of which were previously affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood of Syria and the Shields of the Revolution Council.[1][23]
Sham Legion
10 March 2014 – present[1]
Western and northern Syria
Syrian Revolutionary Command Council[11] (2014–15)- Fatah Halab[12] (2015–16)
Army of Conquest[13]
(2015–16)- Northern Homs Countryside Operations Room[14]
- Mare' Operations Room[15] (2014–16)
- Hawar Kilis Operations Room (since 2016)
- Northern Hama Countryside Operations Room
[16] - Revolutionaries of Atarib (March–April 2018)
National Front for Liberation (since May 2018)[17]
Army of Mujahideen
Islamic Front[18] (2014–15)
Free Syrian Army
Turkey
Ahrar al-Sham
Tahrir al-Sham (sometimes)
- Inter-rebel conflict during the Syrian Civil War
- 2014 Idlib offensive
- Battle of Morek[1]
- Battle of Idlib (2015)[20]
- 2016 Aleppo summer campaign
- Operation Euphrates Shield
- Northwestern Syria campaign (October 2017–February 2018)
- Operation Olive Branch
- Northwestern Syria offensive (April–August 2019)
- 2022 Ahrar al-Sham–Levant Front clashes