Fatah Halab

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Conquest of Aleppo[1]
فتح حلب
Fatah Halab
LeadersMajor Yasser Abdul Rahim[2]
Dates of operation26 April 2015 – 21 January 2017[3] (in the Aleppo Governorate, until 1 December 2016 within southeastern Aleppo)[4]
HeadquartersAleppo, Syria (until 1 December 2016)
Aleppo Governorate, Syria (from 1 December 2016)
Active regionsAleppo Governorate, Syria (from 1 December 2016 they are no longer active in the city centre)[5]
Size8,000+ (16 October 2016)[6]
Allies
Opponents
Battles and wars
Syrian Civil War
Preceded by
Aleppo Liberation Operations Room

Fatah Halab (

Arabic: فتح حلب, romanized: Fataḥ Ḥalab, lit. 'Conquest of Aleppo'), or Aleppo Conquest, was a joint operations room of Syrian rebel factions operating in and around Aleppo, Syria. Succeeding the Aleppo Liberation operations room, its establishment was announced on 26 April 2015.[1][3] It stated that its aim was to conquer Aleppo City from Syrian government forces.[8]

In an October 2015 publication, the Washington D.C.-based

ISIS."[8]

Since the inter-rebel conflicts, defections and mergers which started in December 2016, Fatah Halab has become largely defunct.

Member groups

The operations room included both US-backed groups

Islamist groups. It included some groups which also participated in the Sunni Islamist Ansar al-Sharia operations room, but not others, such as al-Nusra Front.[10] Previously al-Nusra coordinated with other groups through the Aleppo Operations Room.[11]

Fatah Halab was originally established by 7 major Sunni Islamist groups on 26 April 2015:[12]

The number of groups in Fatah Halab increased after its founding, and by 18 June 2015 there were 31 groups.[13]

As of October 2016 there were around 8,000 fighters spread out over a myriad of groups of varying sized. The following were the largest groups that participate in the operations room.[14][15]

YPG
positions in Aleppo, 2 October 2015.

War crimes

See also:
Human rights violations during the Syrian Civil War § Free Syrian Army and other armed opposition fighters

On 13 May 2016,

chemical weapons.[22]

A

Sheikh Maqsoud, intentionally attacked civilian inhabited neighbourhoods of the Kurdish enclave, killing and maiming dozens of civilians, and that these acts constitute the war crime of directing attacks against a civilian population.[23][24]

See also

  • List of armed groups in the Syrian Civil War

References

  1. ^ a b Masi, Alessandria (26 April 2015). "Syria's coming battle for Aleppo: It's everybody against Assad and ISIS". International Business Times. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  2. ^ "Fatah Halab Chief Commander: Military Operation Ongoing To Control Entire Aleppo". Revolutionary Forces of Syria Media Office. 29 October 2016.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ a b Bisaccio, Derek (26 April 2015). "Aleppo city operation". Foreign Policy Talk. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  4. ^ "فتح حلب بيان رقم -41". 1 November 2016. Archived from the original on 16 December 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  5. ^ a b "Syria: Coming together to fight Assad in Aleppo". al-Araby al-Jadeed. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  6. ^ "The Latest: UN Syria envoy: Some 8,000 rebels left in Aleppo". Associated Press. 6 October 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  7. ^ "YPG, allies clash with Syrian opposition groups in Aleppo". Middle East Eye. 29 November 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  8. ^ a b Cafarella & Casagrande 2015, p. 3.
  9. ^ "Syria military resists major rebel assault in Aleppo". BBC News. 3 July 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
  10. ^ Joscelyn, Thomas (3 July 2015). "Al Nusrah Front, allies form new coalition for battle in Aleppo". The Long War Journal. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
  11. ^ Jamie Dettmer (27 January 2015). "Exclusive: Obama Cuts Off Syrian Rebels' Cash". The Daily Beast.
  12. ^ "In the footsteps of Idlib .. factions announce the version of the Aleppo army "conquest"". Zaman al-Wasl. 26 April 2015.
  13. ^ "Infographic: "Fatah Halab" military operations room – coalition of 31 rebel factions". Archicivilians. 18 June 2015. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  14. ^ Cafarella & Casagrande 2015, pp. 8–14
  15. ^ Story, AP. "Associated Press".
  16. ^ "Syrian Civil War factions".
  17. ^ a b Al-Tamimi, Aymenn Jawad. "Syrian Rebel Mergers: A Harakat Nour Al-Din Al-Zinki Perspective".
  18. ^ "Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki". Civil War al-Sham. 17 October 2016. Archived from the original on 6 November 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  19. ^ Roche, Cody (17 November 2016). "Syrian Opposition group infographics [updates]". Archived from the original on 15 December 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
  20. ^ جيش النصر (5 May 2016). "جيش النصر -- استهداف معاقل قوات النظام بقذائف الدبابات في جمعية الزهراء بمدينة حلب" – via YouTube.
  21. ^ فرقة الصفوة (3 February 2016). "فتح حلب-- أكثر من 100 قتيل لعصابات الأسد بمحيط قرية معرستة لمحاولتهم اقتحام القرية وتصدي الثوار لهم" – via YouTube.
  22. ^ "Syria: armed opposition group committing war crimes in Aleppo - new evidence". Amnesty International UK. 13 May 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  23. ^ "Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic" (PDF). United Nations. 2 February 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  24. ^ "UN says Syrian rebel shelling of Kurds 'a war crime'". ARA News. 2 March 2017. Archived from the original on 3 March 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2017.

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