Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement
Former Sunni Islamist rebel group involved in the Syrian Civil War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement (Arabic: حركة نور الدين الزنكي Ḥaraka Nūr ad-Dīn az-Zankī) was a Sunni Islamist rebel group involved in the Syrian Civil War. In 2014, it was reportedly one of the most influential factions in Aleppo,[22] especially the Western Aleppo countryside. Between 2014 and 2015, it was part of the Syrian Revolutionary Command Council and recipient of U.S.-made BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missiles.[23] The Movement made multiple attempts to merge with the larger Islamist rebel group Ahrar al-Sham but were refused by Ahrar al-Sham's leadership. The Zenki Movement also made attempts to merge with other Islamist factions, Jaysh al-Islam and the Sham Legion. However, all merging efforts with these groups failed, leading to the Zenki Movement joining the Salafi Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in 2017.[24] But after a few months the group left HTS and within a year went to war with HTS by joining the Turkish-backed Syrian Liberation Front alongside Ahrar al-Sham on 18 February 2018.[18] After a series of clashes in early 2019 Al Zenki were largely defeated by HTS, expelled to Afrin and absorbed in the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army.
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حركة نور الدين الزنكي | |
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Dates of operation | Late 2011[1] – 25 March 2019 |
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Active regions | Aleppo Governorate and Idlib Governorate, Syria |
Ideology | Sunni Islamism |
Size | 7,000 (2017)[11] |
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Allies | Saudi Arabia (until 2017) Turkey Qatar United States (Until 2015) Al-Nusra Front/ Tahrir al-Sham (2012–14, 2016–17) Ahrar al-Sham Liwa al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar[19] |
Opponents | Syria Iran Russia Hezbollah Syrian Democratic Forces Sultan Murad Division (2017-2019)[20] Levant Front (since late 2016) Army of Mujahideen (since late 2016) Al-Nusra Front/ Tahrir al-Sham (2015, since November 2017) Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Hamza Division (Since 2017) |
Battles and wars | Syrian Civil War |
Preceded by Nour al-Din al-Zenki Battalion |