On December 21, 2012, the Syrian Islamic Front (SIF) announced its creation through a video, which showed SIF factions attacking government forces and distributing humanitarian aid. SIF attempted to merge with the Syria Liberation Front (SLF), which had been formed in September 2012 by some of the nation’s largest Islamist factions, including Kataeb al-Farouq and Suqour al-Sham. After numerous setbacks and ideological differences, the SLF merged with the SIF, and received positive publicity through the capture of the important Taftanaz helicopter airfield in the idleb Governorate, on January 11, 2013. The operation was run by sif members Ahrar al-Sham, Jamaat al-Taliaa al-Islamiya, and Harakat al-Fajr al-Islamiya, in cooperation with the Salafi-Jihadi faction Jabhat al-Nusra, and a group from the SLF’s Suqour al-Sham. According to Aron Lund, SIF is ”the second-largest rebel coalition, is more extreme, and is dominated by hard-core Salafist Muslims. Financing comes…
Syrian Islamic Front (SIF)
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