Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The al-Tawhid Brigade (Arabic: لواء التوحيد, translit. Liwa al-Tawhid, lit. \"Brigade of Oneness\"), named after Tawhid, the \"oneness of God,\" but often mistranslated as Unity Brigade, was an armed Islamist insurgent group involved in the Syrian Civil War. Reportedly backed by Qatar, al-Tawhid was considered one of the biggest groups in northern Syria, dominating much of the insurgency around Aleppo.The group was formed in 2012 in order to coordinate the Battle of Aleppo, with the stated mission to found a \"civil state in Syria with Islam being the main source of legislation.\" Affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, in late 2013 it co-signed a joint statement calling for Sharia law and rejecting the authority of the Syrian National Coalition.Originally composed of three subunits, the Fursan al-Jabal Brigade, the Daret Izza Brigade and the Ahrar al-Shamal Brigade, it became defunct in 2014 following the death of its leader Abdul Qader Saleh in a devastating Syrian Army airstrike. Its northern branch, the Ahrar al-Shamal Brigade, was reportedly \"superseded\" by the Northern Sun Battalion (Shams al-Shamal)."@en }
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- Al-Tawhid_Brigade abstract "The al-Tawhid Brigade (Arabic: لواء التوحيد, translit. Liwa al-Tawhid, lit. \"Brigade of Oneness\"), named after Tawhid, the \"oneness of God,\" but often mistranslated as Unity Brigade, was an armed Islamist insurgent group involved in the Syrian Civil War. Reportedly backed by Qatar, al-Tawhid was considered one of the biggest groups in northern Syria, dominating much of the insurgency around Aleppo.The group was formed in 2012 in order to coordinate the Battle of Aleppo, with the stated mission to found a \"civil state in Syria with Islam being the main source of legislation.\" Affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, in late 2013 it co-signed a joint statement calling for Sharia law and rejecting the authority of the Syrian National Coalition.Originally composed of three subunits, the Fursan al-Jabal Brigade, the Daret Izza Brigade and the Ahrar al-Shamal Brigade, it became defunct in 2014 following the death of its leader Abdul Qader Saleh in a devastating Syrian Army airstrike. Its northern branch, the Ahrar al-Shamal Brigade, was reportedly \"superseded\" by the Northern Sun Battalion (Shams al-Shamal).".