Northern Storm Brigade
| Northern Storm Brigade | |
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| لواء عاصفة الشمال Liwa Asifat al-Shamal | |
The logo used by the group | |
| Leaders |
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| Dates of operation | 2011 – present |
| Group(s) |
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| Headquarters | Azaz |
| Active regions | Aleppo Governorate |
| Ideology | Sunni Islamism Secularism (formerly) |
| Size | 1,100–2,000 (2012) 200 (2014) 500 (January 2015) |
| Part of | Free Syrian Army Islamic Front
Levant Front (since 2014) |
| Allies | Turkey Al-Tawhid Brigade (2012–2014) Kurdish Front (formerly; 2014–2015) |
| Opponents | Syrian Arab Armed Forces Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Tahrir al-Sham Syrian Democratic Forces |
| Battles and wars | Syrian Civil War |
The Northern Storm Brigade (Arabic: لواء عاصفة الشمال, Liwā’ ’Āṣifat ash-Shamāl), also known as the Northern Hurricane Brigade, is a Syrian rebel group formed in 2011 and based in Azaz in northwestern Syria, near the border with Turkey. The leader and other members of the group were smugglers from Azaz and its surroundings before the Syrian Civil War. The group retained exclusive control of the Bab al-Salam border crossing.