Southern Front (Syrian rebel group)

Southern Front
الجبهة الجنوبية
LeadersSee Leadership
Dates of operation13 February 2014 – 23 July 2018
HeadquartersAmman
Active regionsDaraa Governorate
Quneitra Governorate
As Suwayda Governorate
Damascus
IdeologyNationalism
Anti-authoritarianism
Democracy
Factions:
Islamism
Secularism
Size30,000 (June 2014)
25,000 (Nov. 2015) 30,000 (July 2018)
Part of
Allies
Opponents
Warsthe Syrian Civil War

The Southern Front (Arabic: الجبهة الجنوبية) was a Syrian rebel alliance consisting of 54 or 58 Syrian opposition factions affiliated with the Free Syrian Army (FSA), established on 13 February 2014 in southern Syria. By June 2015, the Southern Front controlled about 70 percent of Daraa Governorate, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies; by 2018, the front was defunct, with most of its fighters either reintegrating into the Syrian Army or fleeing to other FSA-held lands in the north.

The coalition was described by Western officials as "the best organized of the mainstream opposition". The constituent groups ranged from secularist groups to moderate religious groups, and the Southern Front has been described as a "non-hardline Islamist rebel group" that rejects extremism.