Sham Legion

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Sham Legion
فيلق الشام
Participant in the Syrian Civil War
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Logo of the Sham Legion
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Flag of the Sham Legion
Active 10 March 2014 – present[1]
Ideology Moderate Islamism[1]
Leaders Mondher Saras[1]
Area of operations Homs Governorate, Syria
Hama Governorate, Syria
Idlib Governorate, Syria[1]
Part of Syrian Revolutionary Command Council[2]
Army of Conquest[3]
Fatah Halab[4]
Northern Homs Countryside Operations Room[5]
Allies Ajnad al-Sham Islamic Union
Army of Mujahedeen
Alweiat Al-Furqan
Islamic Front[6]
Opponents Syrian Armed Forces
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant[6]
Battles and wars

Syrian Civil War

The Sham Legion (Arabic: فيلق الشام‎, Faylaq Al-Sham[1]), also known as Homs Legion, is an alliance of Islamist rebel groups which formed in order to consolidate the strength of moderate Islamists during the Syrian Civil War.[1] The alliance was formed from 19 different groups,[7] some of which were previously affiliated with the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and Shields of the Revolution Council.[1]

On 26 April 2015, along with other major Aleppo based groups, they established the Fatah Halab joint operations room.[4][8]

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