Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Harakat Ahrar ash-Sham al-Islamiyya (Arabic: حركة أحرار الشام الإسلامية, translit. Ahrār ash-Shām, lit. \"Islamic Movement of the Free Men of the Levant\") is a coalition of multiple Islamist and Salafist units that coalesced into a single brigade in order to fight against the Ba'athist government led by Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian Civil War. Ahrar ash-Sham was led by Hassan Aboud until his death in 2014. In July 2013, Ahrar ash-Sham had 10,000 to 20,000 fighters, making it the second single most powerful unit fighting against al-Assad, after the Free Syrian Army. It was the principal organization operating under the umbrella of the Syrian Islamic Front and is a major component of the Islamic Front.It is the largest rebel group in Syria. The group along with Jaysh al-Islam are the main rebel groups supported by Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The group aims to create an Islamic state under Sharia law. The group is allied with Al-Nusra Front, the branch of Al-Qaeda in Syria, and carries out joint operations.Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Iran and Egypt have designated Ahrar ash-Sham as a terrorist organization. Some U.S. officials have reportedly considered designating it as a terrorist organization because of its alleged links to al-Qaeda. On the other hand, several European states have begun small-level engagements with individual Ahrar al-Sham political officials in Turkey."@en }
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- Ahrar_ash-Sham abstract "Harakat Ahrar ash-Sham al-Islamiyya (Arabic: حركة أحرار الشام الإسلامية, translit. Ahrār ash-Shām, lit. \"Islamic Movement of the Free Men of the Levant\") is a coalition of multiple Islamist and Salafist units that coalesced into a single brigade in order to fight against the Ba'athist government led by Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian Civil War. Ahrar ash-Sham was led by Hassan Aboud until his death in 2014. In July 2013, Ahrar ash-Sham had 10,000 to 20,000 fighters, making it the second single most powerful unit fighting against al-Assad, after the Free Syrian Army. It was the principal organization operating under the umbrella of the Syrian Islamic Front and is a major component of the Islamic Front.It is the largest rebel group in Syria. The group along with Jaysh al-Islam are the main rebel groups supported by Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The group aims to create an Islamic state under Sharia law. The group is allied with Al-Nusra Front, the branch of Al-Qaeda in Syria, and carries out joint operations.Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Iran and Egypt have designated Ahrar ash-Sham as a terrorist organization. Some U.S. officials have reportedly considered designating it as a terrorist organization because of its alleged links to al-Qaeda. On the other hand, several European states have begun small-level engagements with individual Ahrar al-Sham political officials in Turkey.".