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 †; (Senior commander); Abdelaziz Salameh; (Top commander November 2013-2014); 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—18 June 2015?
Groups	Free North Brigade; Mountain Knights Brigade; Darat Izza Brigade; Aleppo Shahba Battalions; Conquest Brigade; Northern Storm Brigade; Elite Islamic Battalion (left in November 2013);
Headquarters	Aleppo, Mare', and Tell Rifaat
Active regions	Aleppo Governorate; Homs Governorate; Raqqa Governorate; Al-Hasakah Governorate; of Syria
Ideology	Sunni Islamism; Jihadism (until 2014); Factions:; Salafism
Size	8,000 (July 2012); 10,000 (own claim) (Nov 2012); 13,000 (own claim) (Sep 2013); 8,000-10,000 (December 2013)
Part of	Free Syrian Army (2012-2013); Syrian Islamic Liberation Front (2012–2013); Islamic Front (2013–2015); Levant Front (coaltion) (2014-2015); Euphrates Volcano (eastern branch only, 2014); Syrian Revolutionary Command Council (2014);
Allies	Qatar; Muslim Brotherhood of Syria; 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)
Wars	the Syrian Civil War
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.