Euphrates Volcano

Euphrates Volcano
Euphrates Volcano
بركان الفرات (Arabic)
	The emblem is a shield with the flags of the FSA and YPG on either side of the Euphrates river, with a volcano surrounded by a sun in the background
Dates of operation	10 September 2014 – 10 October 2015
Group(s)	People's Protection Units; Women's Protection Units; Raqqa Revolutionaries' Brigade; Jarabulus Company; Retribution Army; Army of Revolutionaries Northern Sun Battalion; Kurdish Front; ; Liberation Brigade; Jihad in the Path of God Brigade; Tawhid Brigades; ;
Active regions	Aleppo Governorate and Raqqa Governorate
Allies	Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve; International Freedom Battalion; Syriac Military Council; Al-Sanadid Forces; ;
Opponents	Islamic State
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Rojava conflict; Siege of Kobanî; US intervention in the Syrian civil war; Battle of Sarrin (March–April 2015); Tell Abyad offensive (2015); Battle of Sarrin (June–July 2015); Kobanî massacre; ;

Euphrates Volcano (Arabic: بُرْكَان الْفُرَات, romanized: Burkān al-Furāt) was a joint operations room/coalition established during the Syrian Civil War. It mainly consisted of the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and certain factions of the Free Syrian Army (FSA). The group fought to expel the Islamic State from Aleppo and Raqqa provinces. In an October 2015 publication, the Washington D.C.-based Institute for the Study of War considered Euphrates Volcano as one of the "powerbrokers" in Aleppo Province, being primarily "anti-ISIS" but not necessarily "anti-regime".