Martyrs of the Euphrates Battalion

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Martyrs of the Euphrates Battalion

Details Active: 2012-2018 Area: Aleppo and Raqqa Governorates Ideology: Moderate Sunni Islamism Part of: Euphrates Brigades Operations Rooms: Euphrates Volcano Euphrates Islamic Liberation Front

The Martyrs of the Euphrates Battalion was a Free Syrian Army unit active mainly in Aleppo. It was originally formed in 2012 as the Martyrs of al-Qubbah Battalion, hailing from the village of al-Qubbah in the northeast Aleppo countryside. In early 2013 it joined Liwa al-Tawhid, one of the major rebel groups in the first half of the war and a dominant faction in Aleppo. As tension between ISIS and other rebels rose throughout 2013 and ISIS began evicting non-conformant groups from its areas of influence, Liwa al-Tawhid generally took a neutral stance, refusing to weaken the rebellion with infighting. But by 2014 ISIS (soon to be rebranded IS) was at war with practically all other rebels. A few Liwa al-Tawhid units in eastern Aleppo, including the Martyrs of al-Qubbah Battalion, cooperated unofficially (and quietly) with the Kurdish YPG and its FSA allies against IS' aggression. The Martyrs of al-Qubbah refused orders from Tawhid leaders to cease this cooperation and left Tawhid after the latter formed the Levant Front at the end of 2014. They rebranded as the Martyrs of the Euphrates Battalion in January and joined the Euphrates Volcano operations room. The Battalion participated in several EV offenses in northeast Aleppo as part of the Euphrates Brigades and in northwest Raqqa as part of the Euphrates Islamic Liberation Front.