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;
Headquarters	Aleppo, Mare', and Tell Rifaat
Active regions	Aleppo Governorate; Homs Governorate; Raqqa Governorate; of Syria
Ideology	Sunni Islamism
Size	10,000 (own claim) (Nov 2012); 11,000 (Oct 2013)
Part of	Free Syrian Army; Euphrates Volcano (eastern branch only, 2014); Islamic Front (2013–2014); Syrian Revolutionary Command Council (2014); Syrian Islamic Liberation Front (2012–2013);
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	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 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.

Affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, in late 2013 it co-signed a joint statement calling for Sharia law and rejecting the authority of the Syrian National Coalition.

Originally, al-Tawhid was composed of four subunits, the Mountain Knights Brigade, the Darat Izza Brigade, the Free North Brigade, and the Aleppo Shahba Battalions.

Its leader Abdul Qader Saleh was killed in November 2013 in a devastating Syrian Air Force airstrike. Its northern branch, the Free North Brigade, was in 2014 reportedly "superseded" by the Northern Sun Battalion (Shams al-Shamal).

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