Mountain Hawks Brigade
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The Mountain Hawks Brigade was a Free Syrian Army unit based primarily in the region surrounding Mt. Zawiya in Idlib. It was founded in September 2012 as the Falcons of Mount Zawiya Brigade and was originally part of the Ahfad al-Rasul Brigades. In late 2013 it joined the newly-formed Syria Revolutionaries Front but soon left, citing Jamal Maarouf's increasingly obvious corruption. In the months that followed, the group was one of the first to receive TOW missiles from the CIA. In September 2014, it helped form the 5th Corps in September 2014. Of the five groups in the 5th Corps, the Falcons of Mount Zawiya Brigade was the least secularist, and this may explain why it did not come into conflict with the jihadist al-Nusra during the latter's crackdown on the SRF and the Hazzm Movement in late 2014. However, the brigade was not spared in the subsequent harassment campaigns targeting US-backed groups and moderate FSA brigades in general. It lost its headquarters in Mt. Zawiya to al-Nusra in late 2015, after which it renamed to the Mountain Hawks Brigade and began focusing more on the Aleppo front. Nonetheless, the group continued to resist Nusra and its allies in Idlib until the jihadists' ultimate defeat in DATE TBD.