Khalid ibn al-Walid Brigade

Khalid ibn al-Walid Brigade
Khalid ibn al-Walid Brigade
لواء خالد بن الوليد
Leaders	Maj. Abdul Rahman Sheikh Ali †; Capt. Iyad al-Deek †; Hasan al-Ashtar ; Capt. Abdullah Bahdouh; Lt. Omar Shamsi;
Dates of operation	July 2011–December 2014
Group(s)	Farouq Battalion (2011)
Headquarters	Al-Rastan, Syria
Active regions	Homs Governorate
Part of	Free Syrian Army Syrian Revolutionaries Front (until July 2014); Free Officers Movement (until 23 September 2011) Homs Military Council
Opponents	Syrian Armed Forces; Al-Nusra Front (since late 2014)
Battles and wars	Syrian Civil War Siege of Homs; Battle of Rastan (2011); Battle of Rastan (January–February 2012); Battle of Rastan (May 2012); Siege of Northern Homs; al-Nusra Front–SRF/Hazzm Movement conflict;

The Khalid ibn al-Walid Brigade (Arabic: لواء خالد بن الوليد), originally called the Khalid ibn al-Walid Battalion (Arabic: كتيبة خالد بن الوليد), was a Syrian rebel group affiliated with the Free Syrian Army which was active during the Syrian Civil War. The group was one of the first FSA-affiliated rebel groups to be formed in Syria. It operated in the Homs Governorate and participated in the Siege of Homs from 2011 to 2014, when it went defunct.

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