Captain Saeed Narqash (nom de guerre Abu Jamal) (POW)[1]
First Warrant Officer Abu Omar[2][3]
Osama Abu Zeid †[4]
Abu Ja’far al-Homsi (died)[5]
First Lieutenant Abu Shahin (until June 2013)[2]
Dates of operation
5 March 2013—present
Group(s)
Martyrs of Daraya Battalion[3]
Martyrs of the Revolution Battalion
Fayha al-Sham Battalion
Lions of Tawhid Battalion
Descendants of Saladin Battalion
Lions of Sunna Battalion
Special Task Force Battalion
Artillery Company
Engineering and Air Defence Company
Headquarters
Darayya (until 2016)[6] Idlib Governorate (from late 2016)
Active regions
Damascus and Rif Dimashq Governorate (until 2016)[6]
Idlib Governorate (since 2016)
Hama Governorate (since 2016)
Ideology
Islamism
Size
700 (2016)[7]
Part of
Free Syrian Army[6]
Southern Front (February 2014–September 2016)[6]
National Front for Liberation (since May 2018)[8]
Sham Legion (since June 2018)[9]
Allies
Ajnad al-Sham Islamic Union
Opponents
Syrian Armed Forces
National Defense Force
Battles and wars
Syrian Civil War
Battle of Darayya (November 2012–February 2013)
Siege of Darayya and Muadamiyat
2017 Hama offensive[10]
Inter-rebel conflict during the Syrian Civil War
The Martyrs of Islam Brigade (Arabic: لواء شهداء الإسلام; Liwa Shuhada al-Islam) is a Syrian rebel group formed in the Damascus suburb of Darayya and was the main group that operated in the suburb. It was the only Syrian rebel group to be completely under the authority of a local city council and received U.S.-made BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missiles despite the tight siege Darayya was in between 2012 and 2016.[6]
^"From Daria to Idlib: commander of the Martyrs of Islam reveals the full story of alienation Daria". Orient News. 5 September 2016.
^ ab"In an attempt to unify the ranks on the ground the Free Army in Darya is a brigade of the martyrs of Islam". Enab Baladi. 10 March 2013.
^ ab"About Islam Martyrs Brigade". Local Council of Daraya City.
^"As regime drops hundreds of barrel bombs on Darayya, rebel spokesman says 'history will take note of how the revolution abandoned us'". Syria:direct. 16 June 2016. Archived from the original on 11 August 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
^Paul Antonopoulos (14 October 2016). "Photos: Prominent Liwa Shuhada al-Islam leader dies". Al-Masdar News. Archived from the original on 11 August 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
^ abcdeHasan Mustafa (5 August 2015). "The Moderate Rebels: A Complete and Growing List of Vetted Groups Fielding TOW Missiles".
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^"11 FSA Factions in New Command in of "National Front Liberation"". Syria Call. 28 May 2018. Archived from the original on 18 November 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
^Cite error: The named reference sham was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Paul Antonopoulos (25 March 2017). "Two militants originally based in Damascus taken out by Russian airstrike in rural Hama". al-Masdar News. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
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