The White Shroud | |
Native Name: | Al-Kafn Al-Abyad |
Native Name Lang: | Ar |
War: | the Syrian Civil War |
Active: | 2014 – Unknown |
Ideology: | Sunni Islam |
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Headquarters: | Abu Kamal |
Area: | Deir ez-Zor Governorate[1] |
Size: | Several Dozen[2] |
Partof: | Authenticity and Development Front |
Successor: | Lions of the East Army |
Opponents: | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |
Battles: | Syrian Civil War |
The White Shroud was a Sunni Syrian resistance movement established in 2014 to fight the occupation of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Deir ez-Zor Governorate. It claimed responsibility for assassinations of ISIL militants and commanders, and built a presence in the area of Deir ez-Zor. The organisation lost many of its fighters in an ISIL assault on Abu Kamal in April 2014.[1]