Jaish al-Mujahideen represent themselves as “faithful Islamists”. Shahabuddin has acknowledged that the actual reason for the formation of the coalition forces is geography. The coalition force members are all fighting in the same Aleppo region, and that a unified force enabled a stronger capability in opposing both the Syrian government and the ISIS. In addition, though the Jaish al-Mujahideen Army does not present themselves as an extremist group, media statements tend to reflect the opposite.