Levant Front

Levant Front
الجبهة الشامية Jabhat al-Shamiyah
Leaders	Abu Amr (emir)[1][2] Colonel Muhammad al-Ahmad (spokesman)[3] Muhammad Abu Ibrahim (military commander)[4] Abu Ahmad al-Jazrawi[5]
Dates of operation	25 December 2014[6]–18 April 2015; 18 June 2015–present
Group(s)	Sword of the Levant Brigade (Azaz branch) Northern Army Northern Storm Brigade Soldiers of Islam Brigade Soldiers of Levant Brigade[7] Conquest Brigade[8][9] Ahrar al-Sham (northern Aleppo branch)[10][11] Manbij Brigade[citation needed] Fastaqim Union (northern Aleppo branch)
Headquarters	Azaz, Aleppo Governorate, Syria
Active regions	Aleppo Governorate, Syria
Ideology	Sunni Islamism
Size	7,000[12] (December 2016, Russian military claim)
Part of	Fatah Halab[13] Jaysh Halab[14][15] Mare' Operations Room[16] Hawar Kilis Operations Room Free Syrian Army[17] Syrian National Army
Allies	Turkey Sham Legion Syrian Turkmen Brigades (sometimes) Other FSA groups in northern Aleppo
Opponents	Syria Syrian Democratic Forces Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant[18] Tahrir al-Sham Liwa Ahfad Saladin Ahrar al-Sharqiya Hazzm Movement (March 2015)
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Battle of Aleppo[19] Inter-rebel conflict during the Syrian Civil War[18] Operation Euphrates Shield Operation Olive Branch 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria 2022 Ahrar al-Sham–Levant Front clashes October 2022 northern Aleppo clashes

The Levant Front (Arabic: الجبهة الشامية, romanized: al-Jabhat aš-Šāmiyya, Jabhat al-Shamiyah, also translated as the Sham Front or the Levantine Front)^[20] is a Syrian rebel group based around Aleppo involved in the Syrian Civil War.^[21] It was formed in December 2014.

The northern branch of the Levant Front is part of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army. The Netherlands' public prosecutor declared it to be a terrorist organisation in 2018, despite the Dutch government having earlier provided it with support.^[22][23]