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Omari Brigades
Alwiyat al-Omari
Logo of the Omari Brigades
LeadersCapt Qais Al Qatahneh. 
Fares Adib al-Baydar (formerly)
HeadquartersLajat region, Syria
Active regionsDaraa Governorate
Part of Free Syrian Army Syrian Revolutionaries Front southern branch (former)
Allies Saudi Arabia
Syrian opposition Criterion Brigades
Tahrir al-Sham
Islamic Muthanna Movement (Until 2016)
Opponents Syria
 Iran
 Hezbollah
 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Since 2016)
Battles and warsSyrian Civil War
Syrian civil war
Timeline
Civil uprising in Syria (March–August 2011)
Start of insurgency (Sept. 2011 – April 2012)
UN ceasefire; Rebel advances (May 2012 – Dec. 2013)
Rise of ISIS in 2014
U.S.-led intervention, Rebel and ISIL advances (Sept. 2014 – Sept. 2015)
Russian intervention (Sept. 2015 – March 2016)
Aleppo escalation and Euphrates Shield (March 2016 – February 2017)
Collapse of ISIS in Syria (2017)
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(Nov. 2017 – Sep. 2018)
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(Sep. 2018 – April 2019)
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Foreign involvement in the Syrian civil war
Foreign intervention on behalf of Syrian Arab Republic

Foreign intervention in behalf of Syrian rebels

U.S.-led intervention against ISIL

The Omari Brigades was a Syrian rebel group formed in the Lajat region in Daraa Governorate as the first FSA group formed in the province. It received TOW missiles and has been supplied and funded by Saudi Arabia. It is part of the Alliance of Southern Forces. The group is named after the Omari Mosque in Daraa city.

History

The group's leader, Captain Al Qatahneh, was killed in a gun battle with an opposition activist named Qaisar Habib on 28 August 2014. The activist, severely wounded and admitted to a hospital, was murdered on 19 October by Omari Brigades fighters. In 2016, the group participated in the fight between the Syrian opposition and two Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant-affiliated groups, the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade and the Islamic Muthanna Movement. On 1 April, ISIL attempted to assassinate Fares Adib al-Baydar, the former brigade leader.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Blinded by feuds, Syria's southern rebels turn guns on one another". The National. 16 November 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Clashes Renew between the rebels and (IS) Group Rural Daraa". 1 April 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  3. ^ "The Moderate Rebels: A Complete and Growing List of Vetted GroupsDemocratic Revolution, Syrian Style". 21 October 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
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