Kurdish Front

Kurdish Front
جبهة الأكراد Jabhat al-Akrad
Logo of Jabhat al-Akrad since August 2016[1][2][3]
Leaders	Alaa Ajabu (nom de guerre Abu Satif) †[4] Haji Ahmed Kurdi[5][6] Salah Ajabu[7] Abu Steyf[8] Ali Çîçek[9] Khalid Abdo[10] Jawan Abu Hamza[11] Rustam Akrad †[11] Abu Layla (2013–14) Muhammad Abu Adel (2013–14)[12]
Dates of operation	22 January 2013 – present
Group(s)	Shahba Women's Forces[3][13][14] Tel Rifaat Revolutionaries Battalion[15] Victory Battalion (2013)[12]
Active regions	Aleppo Governorate Raqqa Governorate
Ideology	Pluralist democracy[6] Kurdish interests[6] Democratic socialism Federalism Factions: Democratic confederalism Communalism
Size	<3,000
Part of	Free Syrian Brigade (January–March 2013) Revolutionary Military Council of Aleppo Governorate (March–August 2013)[16] Euphrates Volcano (2014–15) Army of Revolutionaries (2015–present) Syrian Democratic Forces (2015–present)
Allies	People's Protection Units[17] Northern Democratic Brigade Shahba Forces Levant Front (2014–15, known as al-Tawhid Brigade until December 2014)[18] Al-Nusra Front (until 2014)
Opponents	Islamic State[19] Al-Nusra Front Syria  Turkey Syrian National Army (since 2017) Saladin Ayubi Brigade (2013)
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016) Raqqa campaign (2012–13) Siege of Menagh Air Base[20] Syrian Kurdish–Islamist conflict (2013–present) Battle of Tell Abyad (2013) Siege of Kobanî Tell Abyad offensive Inter-rebel conflict during the Syrian Civil War Northern Aleppo offensive (February–July 2014) Northern Aleppo offensive (February 2016) Western al-Bab offensive (September 2016) Western al-Bab offensive (October–November 2016)
Website	http://jabhetakrad.com/

The Kurdish Front (Arabic: جبهة الأكراد, transliterated: Jabhat al-Akrad; Kurdish: Eniya Kurdan, former full name: لواء جبهة الأكراد لنصرة شعبنا السوري Liwa' Jabhat al-'Akrād an-Nuṣrah Shaʿbnā al-Sūrī, "Brigade of the Kurdish Front to Support Our Syrian People") is a predominantly Kurdish Syrian rebel faction participating in the Syrian Civil War.

The Kurdish Front operates in Kurdish and ethnically-mixed areas in northern Syria, such as the Sheikh Maqsood and Ashrafiyeh districts of Aleppo city, Afrin Canton, the Shahba region, and the northern Raqqa Governorate.^[21] It also fought as part of Fatah Halab in the Bustan al-Pasha, Haidariya, and Handarat districts of Aleppo city^[18] until November 2015, when Fatah Halab declared war on the Army of Revolutionaries.^[22]