5th Corps (Syrian rebel group)

5th Corps
5th Corps
Arabic: فيلق الخامس
	Logo of the 5th Corps
Leaders	Lt. Col. Fares Bayoush; Lt. Col. Ahmad al-Saud;
Dates of operation	7 September 2014 – November 2014 (defunct)
Headquarters	Maarrat al-Nu'man and Kafr Nabl
Active regions	Northwestern Syria Idlib Governorate; Aleppo Governorate; Hama Governorate;
Ideology	Syrian nationalism
Size	Few thousand
Part of	Free Syrian Army; Syrian Revolutionary Command Council
Allies	Sham Legion; Islamic Front; Al-Nusra Front;
Opponents	Syrian Armed Forces; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant;
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Battle of Morek; Siege of Wadi Deif (2014); al-Nusra Front–SRF/Hazzm Movement conflict;
	Succeeded by; Free Idlib Army

The 5th Corps (Arabic: فيلق الخامس) was an alliance of five Syrian rebel groups that was formed during the Syrian Civil War in September 2014. All five units were affiliated with the Free Syrian Army and the Supreme Military Council, used the Syrian independence flag as their symbol, and received BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missiles from the US-backed Friends of Syria Group through the Military Operations Center in Reyhanlı, Turkey, near the Syrian border.^[3]

^ ^a ^b Mohammad Nemr (30 September 2014). "FSA: No terror is comparable to Assad's terror". Al-Monitor.
^ "Merger of Five Rebel Factions into the Fifth Corps". National Coalition of Syrian and Revolutionary Forces. 8 September 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "The Moderate Rebels: A Complete and Growing List of Vetted Groups". Hassan Mustafas. 22 November 2014. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2015.