Army of Conquest

Army of Conquest
Army of Conquest
جيش الفتح
Dates of operation	24 March 2015 – 27 January 2017
Group(s)	Al-Nusra Front; Liwa al-Haqq; Jaysh al-Sunna; Jund al-Aqsa; Turkistan Islamic Party; Ajnad al-Kavkaz; Ajnad al-Sham; Ahrar al-Sham; Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement; Suqour al-Sham Brigades; Sham Legion;
Headquarters	Idlib, Syria
Active regions	Syria
Ideology	Sunni Islamism
Size	50,000+
Allies	Saudi Arabia; Qatar; Turkey; Free Syrian Army; Fatah Halab; Junud al-Makhdi; Ansar al-Din Front; Caucasus Emirate; Northern Homs Countryside Operations Room; Jama'at Ansar al-Islam;
Opponents	Ba'athist Syria; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; Russia; Iran; United States; Hezbollah; Syrian Democratic Forces; Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba; Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq;
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War 2015 Idlib offensive Battle of Idlib (2015); ; Northwestern Syria offensive (April–June 2015); Qalamoun offensive (May–June 2015); Quneitra offensive (June 2015); Insurgency in Idlib; Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016);

The Army of Conquest (Arabic: جيش الفتح) or Jaish al-Fatah, abbreviated JaF, was a joint command center of Sunni Islamist Syrian rebel factions participating in the Syrian Civil War.

The alliance was formed in March 2015 under the supervision and coordination of Saudi cleric Abdullah al-Muhaysini. It consisted of Islamist rebel factions mainly active in the Idlib Governorate, with some factions active in the Hama and Latakia Governorates. In the course of the following months, it seized most of Idlib Governorate.

The Institute for the Study of War described the Army of Conquest as an "anti-regime" and "anti-Hezbollah" powerbroker operating in the Idlib, Hama, Daraa and Quneitra Governorates. The Army of Conquest was described by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change as an "al-Qaeda led coalition" which was working towards the ultimate goal of creating an "Islamic state."