Army of Conquest

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Army of Conquest
جيش الفتح
Dates of operation	24 March 2015[1] – 27 January 2017[citation needed]
Group(s)	Al-Nusra Front[2] Jund al-Aqsa[3] Ajnad al-Sham Ahrar al-Sham Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement[4] Liwa al-Haqq Jaysh al-Sunna[5] (Hama branch merged with Ahrar ash-Sham)[citation needed] Suqour al-Sham Brigades[6] Turkistan Islamic Party[7] Ajnad al-Kavkaz[8] Sham Legion
Headquarters	Idlib, Syria
Active regions	Syria
Ideology	Sunni Islamism[9]
Size	50,000+[10][better source needed]
Allies	Saudi Arabia  Qatar  Turkey Free Syrian Army Fatah Halab Junud al-Makhdi Ansar al-Din Front Caucasus Emirate Northern Homs Countryside Operations Room
Opponents	Syria Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant  Russia  Iran  United States Hezbollah[11] Syrian Democratic Forces Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba[12] Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq[13]
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War 2015 Idlib offensive[14] Battle of Idlib (2015)[14] Northwestern Syria offensive (April–June 2015)[15] Qalamoun offensive (May–June 2015) Quneitra offensive (June 2015) Insurgency in Idlib Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016)

The Army of Conquest (Arabic: جيش الفتح) or Jaish al-Fatah, abbreviated JaF, was a joint command center of Sunni Islamist Syrian rebel factions participating in the Syrian Civil War.

The alliance was formed in March 2015 under the supervision and coordination of Saudi cleric Abdullah al-Muhaysini. It consists of Islamist rebel factions mainly active in the Idlib Governorate, with some factions active in the Hama and Latakia Governorates.^[9] In the course of the following months, it seized most of Idlib Governorate.^[16][17]

The Institute for the Study of War has described Jaish al-Fatah as an "anti-regime" and "anti-Hezbollah" powerbroker operating in the Idlib, Hama, Daraa and Quneitra Governorates.^[18] Jaish al-Fatah has been described by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change as an "al-Qaeda led coalition" which was working towards the ultimate goal of creating an "Islamic state."^[19]