Jaysh al-Islam
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Jaysh al-Islam (Arabic: جيش الإسلام, romanized: Jayš al-ʾIslām, meaning Army of Islam), formerly known as Liwa al-Islam (Arabic: لواء الإسلام, Brigade of Islam), is a coalition of Islamist rebel units involved in the Syrian Civil War.
The group was part of the Free Syrian Army's Supreme Military Council until December 2013,[39] but in November 2013 started the Syrian Islamic Front and the next month broke with the SMC and the Free Syrian Army.[25][26][27]
Its primary base of operations was the Damascus area, particularly the city of Douma and the rest of the region of Eastern Ghouta,[13] where Jaysh al-Islam was the largest rebel faction,[40] as was Liwa al-Islam before.[41] Following the fall of Ghouta to Assad’s forces, Jaysh al-Islam retreated to areas controlled by the Turkish Backed Free Syrian Army, where it reportedly joined the FSA, after years of separation from FSA command.[42]
The group along with Ahrar al-Sham was among the main rebel groups supported by Saudi Arabia.[43] The group has promoted an Islamic state under Sharia law.[44] In 2015, its then leader claimed in an interview to be seeking for the Syrian government to be replaced by a “technocratic body that represents the diversity of the Syrian people.”[45]