Liwa al-Haqq (Idlib)

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Liwa al-Haqq (Idlib)
لواء الحق بريف إدلب
Logo of Liwa al-Haqq
Active regions	Hama Governorate, Syria[1] Idlib Governorate, Syria[2]
Ideology	Sunni Islamism[1]
Part of	Syrian Islamic Liberation Front Muhajirin wa-Ansar Alliance[2] Army of Conquest[3] Fatah Halab[4]
Allies	Islamic State of Iraq (2013) Liwaa al-Umma Jund al-Aqsa[2] Jabhat Fateh al-Sham Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement
Opponents	Syria  Iran  Russia
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Battle of Aleppo (2012-16) Raqqa campaign (2012–13) Al-Nusra Front–Syria Revolutionaries Front conflict Second Battle of Idlib[3] Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War[5]
Designated as a terrorist group by	Malaysia[6]
Succeeded by Tahrir al-Sham

Liwa al-Haqq (Arabic: لواء الحق بريف إدلب, Right Brigade or Truth Brigade), is a Syrian Islamist rebel group that was active during the Syrian Civil War until joining Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in 2017.^[2]

History[edit]

On 31 October 2014, amid fighting between al-Nusra and the western-backed Hazzm Movement and Syrian Revolutionaries Front, Liwa al-Haqq along with 13 other rebel groups in Idlib established a peace keeping force to mediate the conflict between al-Nusra and the western backed groups, among the peace keeping factions included Ahrar al-Sham, Jaysh al-Islam, Suqour al-Sham and the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement.^[7]

In May 2015, Liwa al-Haqq was part of a joint rebel offensive alongside the al-Nusra Front, Ajnad al-Kavkaz, Jund al-Aqsa, and Faylaq al-Sham against the Syrian government in northwestern Syria, that eventually led to the rebel takeover of much of the Idlib Governorate, including the governorate's capital Idlib.^[8]

In September 2015, In response to reports of Russian intervention, Liwa al-Haqq commander Abu Abdullah Taftanaz posted a tweet addressing "infidel Russians", and threatening to "slaughter you like pigs."^[9]

In October 2015, a Russian air raid targeted a Liwa al-Haqq base in the Raqqa Governorate using KAB-500KR precision-guided bombs, reportedly killing two senior ISIL commanders and up to 200 militants.^[10]

In November 2015, Liwa al-Haqq and al-Nusra both released photos of an American made Humvee captured from an Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite militia in southern Aleppo, that was believed to be Kataib Hezbollah.^[11][12]

In early May 2016, Liwa al-Haqq took part in a campaign part of the Army of Conquest coalition in southern Aleppo, during the offensive al-Nusra deployed SVBIEDs targeting Shiite militia fighters in the area, and Jund al-Aqsa carried out separate attacks in coordination with al-Nusra and the Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria during the offensive.^[13]

On 28 January 2017, Liwa al-Haqq, alongside the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, Jabhat Ansar al-Din, Jaysh al-Sunna and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, which was formerly al-Nusra until disengaging from al-Qaeda and rebranding in 2016, together merged to form Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.^[14]

In June 2018, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham arrested several members of ISIL-linked cells in eastern Idlib, including cells affiliated Liwa Dawud which pledged allegiance to ISIL in 2014 and members of Liwa al-Haqq.^[15]

See also[edit]

• List of armed groups in the Syrian Civil War

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Liwa al-Haqq on Twitter (in Arabic)