The Dawn of Freedom Brigades coalition brigade is supporting the Kurdish Democratic Union Party’s (PYD) armed wing the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in fighting the Islamic State (IS) in the Kobani (Ayn al-Arab) area in Syria, which is one of the self-declared autonomous cantons of the PYD. The coalition brigade includes: Kata’ib Shams al-Shamal (‘Sun of the North Battalions’), whose official Facebook page ‘likes’ a page by the Manbij Martyrs’ Battalion. The latter was a Liwa al-Tawheed affiliate in the town of Manbij, which since January 2014 has been under IS control. Furthermore, the Dawn of Freedom Brigades is part of the Joint Operations Room that was formed on 10 September 2014 between the YPG and several brigades in response to renewed IS attacks. The YPG is relying on several rebel brigades’ support in Kobani namely the Dawn of Freedom Brigades, Jabhat al-Akrad (the Kurdish Front Brigade) and Liwa Thuwar al-Raqqa (Raqqa Revolutionaries Brigades). According…
Dawn of Freedom Brigades (Tajammu’ Alwiya Fajr al-Hurriya)
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