Fighting Vanguard

Fighting Vanguard of the Mujahidin
الطليعة المقاتلة للمجاهدين
LeaderMarwan Hadid (until June 1975)
Abdel Sattar al-Za’im (until mid-1979)
Adnan Uqlah (June 1979 – late 1982)
Foundation1960s
Dissolved1982
Split fromMuslim Brotherhood in Syria
CountrySyria
IdeologySunni Islamism
Anti-Assadism
AlliesMuslim Brotherhood (after mid-1979)
Opponents Ba'athist Syria
Battles and warsIslamist uprising in Syria

The Fighting Vanguard of the Mujahidin (Arabic: الطليعة المقاتلة للمجاهدين, romanized: al-Ṭāliʿa al-Muqātila lil-Mujāhidīn), also known as the Fighting Vanguard of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria (Arabic: الطليعة المقاتلة للإخوان المسلمين في سوريا), was a Syrian militant organization and offshoot of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood that took part in violent actions against the regime of Hafez al-Assad during the Islamist uprising in Syria, mainly between 1979 and 1982.