Al-Tawhid Brigade

al-Tawhid Brigade
al-Tawhid Brigade
لواء التوحيد
	Official logo of the Tawhid Brigade
Leaders	Abdul Qader Saleh †; (Top Commander July 2012–November 2013); Adnan Bakkour †; (Top Commander November 2013–January 2014); Abdelaziz Salameh; (Top Commander January 2014-?); Maj. Mohammed Hamadeen; (Free North Brigade); Col. Yusef al-Jader †; (Senior commander in Aleppo); Yussef al-Abbas †; (Intelligence chief);
Dates of operation	18 July 2012—2014 (central group, some remnants still use the name)
Group(s)	Free North Brigade; Mountain Knights Brigade; Darat Izza Brigade; Aleppo Shahba Battalions; Northern Storm Brigade; 1st Regiment; Conquest Brigade;
Headquarters	Aleppo, Mare', and Tell Rifaat
Active regions	Aleppo Governorate; Homs Governorate; Raqqa Governorate; Al-Hasakah Governorate; of Syria
Ideology	Sunni Islamism Salafi Islamism;
Size	10,000 (own claim) (Nov 2012); 13,000 (Sep 2013)
Part of	Free Syrian Army (2012-2013) Syrian Islamic Liberation Front (2012–2013); ; Islamic Front (2013–2014); Euphrates Volcano (eastern branch only, 2014); Syrian Revolutionary Command Council (2014);
Allies	Qatar; al-Nusra Front; Ahrar ash-Sham; Jaysh al-Islam; Sham Legion; Kurdish Front (2014); Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (2013)
Opponents	Ba'athist Syria; Ghuraba al-Sham Front; Hezbollah; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (2014); People's Protection Units (2012–2014)
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Rojava conflict; Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016); Al-Hasakah Governorate campaign (2012–2013); Deir ez-Zor clashes (2011–2014); Siege of Menagh Air Base; Battle of al-Qusayr (2013); 2013 Latakia offensive; Syrian opposition–ISIL conflict Northern Aleppo offensive (February–July 2014); ; Siege of Kobanî; ;
Designated as a terrorist group by	Syria; United Arab Emirates

The al-Tawhid Brigade (Arabic: لواء التوحيد, romanized: Liwa al-Tawhid, lit. 'Brigade of monotheism'; named after Tawhid, the "oneness of God,") was an armed Islamist insurgent group involved in the Syrian Civil War.

The al-Tawhid Brigade was formed in 2012. Reportedly backed by Qatar, al-Tawhid was considered one of the biggest groups in northern Syria, dominating most of the insurgency around Aleppo.

Its leader Abdul Qader Saleh was killed in November 2013 in a Syrian Air Force airstrike.