Jaysh al-Nasr

"Army of Victory" redirects here. For Jaish al-Fatah, sometimes mistranslated as "Army of Victory", see Army of Conquest.
Jaysh al-Nasr
جيش النصر
Participant in the Syrian Civil War

Official logo of Jaysh al-Nasr

Jaysh al-Nasr flag
Active August 2015[1] – present
Leaders Mohamed Mansour[2]
Area of operations Hama Governorate, Syria
Part of Free Syrian Army
Army of Conquest(alleged)[3][4][5]/
Rad al-Mazalem[6][7][8][9]
Fatah Halab[10]
Opponents Syrian Armed Forces
Battles and wars Syrian Civil War

Jaysh al-Nasr (Arabic: جيش النصر) or the Army of Victory is a Free Syrian Army-allied, armed rebel faction participating in the Syrian Civil War. Founded in August 2015 as a joint operations room of 16 member groups,[1] three of the groups later fully merged into Jaysh al-Nasr.

History

Formation as a joint operations room

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 Hama the city." 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:[1][11]

  • Falcons of al-Ghab (Suqour al-Ghab')
  • Jaish al-Izzah
  • ash-Sham Front
  • Jabhat al-Inqaz
  • Falcons of Mount Zawiya Brigade (Suqour al-Jabal)
  • Sixth Brigade
  • Brigade 111
  • Brigade 60
  • Bilad ash-Sham Brigade
  • Regiment 111
  • Revolutionary Fidai Movement
  • Suqour al-Jihad Battalion
  • Martyrs of Tremseh Brigade
  • al-Mashhour Battalions
  • al-Adiyat Brigade

Reformation as a unified group

In late October 2015, it was announced that three of its component groups, the Regiment 111, the Falcons of al-Ghab and the al-Inqaz Front (Jabhat al-Inqadh al-Muqatila) completely merged into Jaysh al-Nasr with Suqour al-Ghab's leader Mohamed Mansour assuming the leadership of the new unified group.[2]

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