The Alliance of Southern Forces was a
Syrian rebel
A number of states and armed groups have involved themselves in the ongoing Syrian Civil War as belligerents.
Syrian Arab Republic and allies
A number of sources have emphasized that as of at least late-2015/early-2016 the Syrian Arab Republic ...
coalition consisting of 8 rebel factions from the
Free Syrian Army
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) ( ar, الجيش السوري الحر, al-jaysh as-Sūrī al-ḥur) is a loose faction in the Syrian Civil War founded on 29 July 2011 by officers of the Syrian Armed Forces with the goal of bringing down the governm ...
's
Southern Front. The group operated in southwestern
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
. The coalition supported the
High Negotiations Committee
The High Negotiations Committee (HNC) is an umbrella body which was created to represent the Syrian opposition in the planned Geneva peace talks in 2016. It is led by Riyad Farid Hijab, who was Prime Minister of Syria from June to August 2012. ...
and its participation in the
Geneva peace talks on Syria.
Member groups
*
Omari Brigades
The Omari Brigades was a Syrian rebel group formed in the Lajat region in Daraa Governorate as the first FSA group formed in the province. It received TOW missiles and has been supplied and funded by Saudi Arabia. It is part of the Alliance of S ...
*
18 March Division
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, war=the Syrian Civil War
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, active=11 April 2013 – 31 July 2018
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, leaders=Col. Mohammed Khaled al-Duhni
Hosam Abazid
, clans=* Martyr Houran
* Liberation of Houran
* Engineering and Rocke ...
**Martyr Houran
**Liberation of Houran
**Engineering and Rocket Battalion
[
*Division of Decisiveness]Subject
Subject ( la, subiectus "lying beneath") may refer to:
Philosophy
*''Hypokeimenon'', or ''subiectum'', in metaphysics, the "internal", non-objective being of a thing
**Subject (philosophy), a being that has subjective experiences, subjective cons ...
of Islam Brigade
**Martyrs of Freedom Division
*Division of Righteousness
*46th Infantry Division[
**24th Infantry Division
**69th Special Forces Division
***Free Men of Inkhil Brigade
***Murabitun Brigade
***Lions of Islam Brigade
***Fath al-Mubin Brigade
**Al-Bayt Brigade
*1st Special Tasks Brigade
*Salvation Army
**Free Nawa Division
***8th Infantry Division]
History
On 19 May 2017, Mazen Jawad, also known by his ''nom de guerre
A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individua ...
'' Abu Walid, a commander of the Free Nawa Division of the Alliance of Southern Forces, was assassinated by unknown assailants at his home in Inkhil
Inkhil ( ar, أنخل, Ankhil) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the al-Sanamayn District of the Daraa Governorate. It is located north of Daraa and just east of the Golan Heights in the Hauran plain. In the 2004 census by the ...
.[
]
See also
*First Army (Syrian rebel group)
The First Army was created on 1 January 2015 in an effort to unify rebel ranks in southern Syria. Three prominent rebel units merged under this command structure.
History
During the 2015 Southern Syria offensive, the commander of the 1st Army, ...
* Hawks of the South
References
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Anti-government factions of the Syrian civil war
Anti-ISIL factions in Syria
Free Syrian Army