The Syria Revolutionaries Front is a Syrian rebel organization with 15,000 troops. It was formed in December 2013 during the Syrian Civil War, and it allied with the Islamic Front, Army of Mujahideen, Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar, and the al-Nusra Front (at times), while it was enemies with the Syrian Arab Republic, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jund al-Aqsa, Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, and the al-Nusra Front (at times).
History[]
SRF guerrillas in Idlib Governorate
The Syria Revolutionaries Front was founded in December 2013 as a merger of the Idlib Military Council, Syrian Martyrs' Brigade, the Idlib Martyrs' Brigade, the Ahrar al-Shamal Brigade, Omari Brigades, and FSA 7th Division, among other rebel groups. The SRF combined ideologies, with some elements being secularist and others adhering to Islamic democracy. As an alliance of several groups, it had many goals and components.
From 29 December 2013 to 14 March 2014, the SRF besieged the town of Zarzur in Idlib Governorate, attacking the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Islamist extremists that occupied the town. They also liberated Yakubia, where ISIS broke the cross in a church and killed the Christian priest, having taken away his Free Syrian Army protectors. The SRF grew into a large rebel group, with 15,000 soldiers in northern Syria. The SRF fought not only against the Syrian Arab Army regime forces of President Bashar al-Assad and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria brigades of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but also fought with their occasional al-Nusra Front and Islamic Front allies in inter-rebel conflicts. From 26 October 2014 to 1 March 2015, the SRF, FSA, and Hazzm Movement fought the al-Nusra Front, Islamic State, and Jund al-Aqsa, who accused the SRF of hoarding bread to sell it at higher prices. Most SRF fighters defected or deserted as a result of their defeat at the hands of their enemies, and its leader Jamal Maarouf fled to Turkey.