Revolutionaries of Tal Abyad Front
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The Revolutionaries of Tal Abyad Front was a small Free Syrian Army unit based in the town of Tal Abyad in northern Raqqa governorate, on the border with Turkey. It was formed mostly by former members of the Farouq Battalions who had participated in the capture of Tal Abyad from the Assad government in 2012; their leader was Abu Azzam, a cofounder of the Farouq Battalions and a critic of jihadi groups. Farouq was one of the first groups to be chased out of Raqqa by ISIS; many of these fighters fled to Aleppo, some specifically to YPG-controlled territory. Azzam and many others regrouped and formed the Revolutionaries of Tal Abyad Front in May 2015 to participate in the Euphrates Volcano offensive to liberate Tal Abyad, which succeeded in July. The group spent most of the rest of the war in a security role, defending against the occasional jihadist insurgent cell.