Jabhat Ansar al-Islam

Jabhat Ansar al-Islam
Supporters of Islam Front
Jabhat Ansar al-Islam; Supporters of Islam Front;
جبهة أنصار الإسلام
	Logo of Jabhat Ansar al-Islam
Leaders	Abu Muhammad al-Jolani; Abu al-Majd al-Jolani (POW); Bashar Abu Shihab (POW); Abu Mu'adh al-Agha (spokesman of Tajamu Ansar al-Islam, 2012–13);
Dates of operation	8 August 2012 – late 2013 (Tajamu Ansar al-Islam); 31 March 2014 – late 2018 (Jabhat Ansar al-Islam);
Groups	Jabhat Ansar al-Islam: Usama ibn Zayd Brigade; Izz ibn 'Abd al-Salam Brigade; Battalion of the Chargers; Former, Tajamu Ansar al-Islam: Jaysh al-Islam; Alwiya al-Furqan; Ahfad al-Rasul Brigades; Katibat Hamza bin Abdelmuttalib; Al-Sahaba Brigades; Habib al-Mustafa Brigades; Shield of al-Sham Brigades;
Active regions	Quneitra Governorate; Daraa Governorate; Rif Dimashq Governorate (until 2017); Idlib Governorate (2015);
Ideology	Sunni Islamism; Jihadism
Part of	Free Syrian Army (2012–2013, since 2016) Southern Front (April-July 2017); National Front for the Liberation of Syria (since July); ; Syrian Revolutionary Command Council (2014–2015);
Allies	Israel; Army of Free Tribes; Alwiya al-Furqan;
Opponents	Syrian Armed Forces National Defense Force; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Wars	Syrian Civil War

Jabhat Ansar al-Islam (Arabic: جبهة أنصار الإسلام; Supporters of Islam Front), originally formed as Tajamu' Ansar al-Islam (Arabic: تجمع أنصار الإسلام; Assembly of the Supporters of Islam) in August 2012, is an independent Sunni Islamist Syrian rebel group active in the Quneitra and Daraa Governorates.

Jabhat Ansar al-Islam is among dozens of Syrian rebel groups that have in the past been supplied with US-made BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missiles and Soviet-made 9K32 Strela-2 MANPADS with US approval.

The group was also known to receive Israeli support alongside several other Syrian opposition factions such as Fursan al-Joulan, Firqat Ahrar Nawa, Saif al-Sham Brigade, Jaydour Horan Brigade, Al-Ezz bin Abdul Salam Brigade, Omar Bin Al-Khattab Brigade, Al-Haramein Battalion, Alwiya al-Furqan, Syrian Revolutionaries Front, Jaysh al-Ababil, Ahrar Gathering and others.