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Army of Mujahideen

The Army of Mujahideen is a coalition of Islamist rebel groups fighting in the Syrian Civil War, founded on 2 January 2014. Jaish al-Mujahideen was a mixture of Islamist radicals and secular Free Syrian Army fighters, having no political views except for the advocacy of the overthrow of the Syrian Arab Republic and the enforcement of stability in Aleppo Governorate against the Islamic State. The United States supplied the Army of Mujahideen with weaponry during the civil war due to its moderate stance, and it announced its support of Turkey against the PKK in 2015 at the start of the PKK rebellion. The Army of Mujahideen is allied to the Syria Revolutionaries Front, Al-Nusra Front, Islamic Front, and Sham Legion, and it is enemies with the Syrian Arab Army and the Islamic State.

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The Army of Mujahideen was founded on 2 January 2014 by Captain Mohammed Shakerdi, Sheikh Tawfiq Shahabuddin, and Lt. Col. Abu Bakr. Based in the Aleppo Governorate of Syria, the Army of Mujahideen's 15,000 troops emerged from the hinterland towns and villages of Aleppo, with several ideologies and origins. The group is not political and, although many of its members are Islamists, it seeks only to stop the Islamic State from disrupting security, as well as aiming to overthrow the Syrian Arab Republic. The Army of Mujahideen fought in the Battle of Aleppo against the Syrians and Islamic State, and assisted their Islamic Front allies in the heavy fighting against the regime forces. However, later in 2014 their group started to break up and it became only a shadow of its former self, lacking significant outside support (only 50 fighters in the group were trained by the United States' CIA). On 6 May 2015, the group joined the Fatah Halab operations room following the defection of many of its soldiers to new rebel groups.

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