Tahrir al-Sham

Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham Organization for the Liberation of the Levant
هيئة تحرير الشام Participant in the Syrian Civil War and the Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon
Logo of Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham Flag of Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham
Active	28 January 2017 – present
Ideology	Sunni Islamism Salafism Salafist jihadism Wahhabism
Leaders	Abu Jaber Shaykh (Leader) Abu Mohammad al-Julani (Military chief)
Headquarters	Idlib, Idlib Governorate, Syria
Area of operations	Syria  Lebanon
Strength	31,000+ (20,000 al-Nusra fighters)
Part of	al-Qaeda (Covertly)
Originated as	Al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in Syria) Ansar al-Din Front Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement Liwa al-Haqq Jaysh al-Sunna
Allies	Turkistan Islamic Party Ansar al-Islam splinter faction Karm al-Jabal Martyrs Battalion Ajnad al-Kavkaz Caucasus Emirate Junud al-Makhdi Ahrar al-Sham (in Daraa) Malhama Tactical
Opponents	State opponents  Syria  Iran  Russia  Lebanon  United States  Jordan Non-state opponents Syrian Democratic Forces Free Syrian Army Free Idlib Army Hawar Kilis Operations Room Ahrar al-Sham Hezbollah Popular Mobilization Forces Al-Abbas brigade Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Jund al-Aqsa (Since February 2017)
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Idlib Governorate clashes (2017) Daraa offensive (February 2017) Military intervention against ISIL American-led intervention in Syria Russian military intervention in Syria

Sunni Islamism

State opponents

Non-state opponents

Syrian Civil War

Military intervention against ISIL

Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (Arabic: هيئة تحرير الشام‎‎, transliteration: Hayʼat Taḥrīr al-Shām, "Organization for the Liberation of the Levant" or "Levant Liberation Committee"), commonly referred to as Tahrir al-Sham and abbreviated HTS, is an active Jihadist and Salafist group involved in the Syrian Civil War. The group was formed on 28 January 2017 as a merger between Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (former al-Nusra Front), the Ansar al-Din Front, Jaysh al-Sunna, Liwa al-Haqq, and the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement. After the announcement, additional groups and individuals joined. The merger is currently led by Jabhat Fatah al-Sham and former Ahrar al-Sham leaders, although the High Command consists of leaders from other groups. Many groups and individuals defected from Ahrar al-Sham, representing their more conservative and Salafist elements. Some analysts reported that the goal of forming Tahrir al-Sham was to unite all groups with al-Qaeda's extreme ideology under one banner, and to obtain as many weapons as possible. They also reported that many of the former Jabhat Fateh al-Sham fighters still answered to al-Qaeda, and held an increasing amount of sway over the new group. It was also reported that despite the recent formation of Tahrir al-Sham, the new group secretly maintains a fundamental link to al-Qaeda, and that many of the group's senior figures, particularly Abu Jaber, held similarly extreme views. Tahrir al-Sham has the goal of turning Syria into an Islamic Emirate run by al-Qaeda.

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