19th Division (Syrian rebel group)

19th Division
الفرقة 19
Logo of the 19th Division
Leaders	Lt. Col. Muhammad Abdel Qadur Bakur (nom de guerre: "Abu Bakr")[1]
Dates of operation	June 2013 – ?[1] September 2012 – ? (Ansar Brigade)
Group(s)	Ansar Brigade Supporters of the Caliphate Brigade[citation needed] Supporters of Sharia Brigade[citation needed] Khan al-Asal Free Brigades[citation needed] Ash-Shuyukh Brigade[citation needed] Muhajireen Brigade[citation needed]
Active regions	Aleppo Governorate[2]
Ideology	Sunni Islamism[3]
Part of	Army of Mujahideen
Allies	Al-Tawhid Brigade (2013–2014) Fastaqim Union Liwa Ahrar Souriya 16th Division Levant Front Ahrar al-Sham Al-Nusra Front (2013–2017)
Opponents	Syrian Armed Forces National Defense Forces  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant[2] Al-Nusra Front (2017)
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Siege of Base 46 Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016) Aleppo offensive (October–December 2013) Inter-rebel conflict during the Syrian Civil War

The 19th Division (Arabic: الفرقة 19) was a Syrian rebel group which fought in the Syrian Civil War. The group was created in June 2013 in the western countryside of the Aleppo Governorate as a part of a foreign-funded project to unify local Free Syrian Army-affiliated factions into bigger factions.^[1]