Suqour al-Ezz | |
Native Name: | كتيبة صقور العز |
Native Name Lang: | Ar |
War: | Syrian Civil War |
Active: | February 2013[1] –January 2014 |
Ideology: | Salafist jihadism[2] |
Leaders: | Saqr al-Jihad[3] |
Area: | Latakia Governorate, Syria[4] |
Partof: | al-Nusra Front[5] |
Allies: | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant[6] Green Battalion Harakat Sham al-Islam Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar Ahrar ash-Sham[7] |
Opponents: | Syrian Armed Forces |
Battles: | Syrian Civil War |
Suqour al-Ezz (Arabic: كتيبة صقور العز), also spelled Suqour al-Izz,[3] was a group composed of primarily Saudi jihadists that have been active during the Syrian Civil War.[8]
Founded in February 2013, due to personal disputes with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and the al-Nusra Front, it originally operated as an independent jihadist group while still cooperating on the battlefield with both groups.[1] However, in January 2014, the group joined al-Nusra.[5]