The Levant Revolutionaries Battalions (LRB) is a faction in

Syria Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...

during the Syrian civil war.

History

The group was formed by Naji Mustafa (a former commander in the Army of Mujahideen) as a split from the

Levant Front The Levant Front (, Jabhat al-Shamiyah, also translated as the Sham Front or the Levantine Front) was a Syrian revolutionary group based around Aleppo involved in the Syrian Civil War. It was formed in December 2014. The northern branch of th ...

, which he and others left in April 2015. It was one of the many Syrian rebel groups armed with

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missiles by the

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that autumn. The LRB announced in June 2016 that it would merge with the Levant Front. By July, many members of the LRB had separated from the Levant Front again and become independent. Mustafa left in 2016 with 200 fighters and was made a spokesman of the

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by June 2021. The group merged with

Ahrar al-Sham Harakat Ahrar al-Sham al-Islamiyya (), commonly referred to as Ahrar al-Sham, was a coalition of multiple Sunni Islamist units that coalesced into a single brigade and later a division in order to fight against the Syrian Government led by Bas ...

in January 2017.

References

{{Syrian Civil War Syrian civil war 2015 establishments 2010s establishments in Syria