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Jamil al-Saleh
Jamil Shahada al-Saleh (Arabic: جميل شحادة الصالح) is a Syrian military officer and former opposition leader, serving as the founding commander of Jaysh al-Izza until its dissolution following the fall of the Assad regime. On 19 February 2025, he was appointed commander of the 74th Division.
He was born in Al-Lataminah, Hama, in 1974.
Prior to the Syrian revolution, Jamil served as a major in the 17th Reserve Division of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the city of Raqqa.
Upon the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, he defected from the SAA in February 2012 and joined the Free Syrian Army (FSA). He planned to defect earlier, in August 2011, with his cousin and ally, Lieutenant Colonel Samer al-Saleh, but delayed it after Samer was arrested by the Air Force Intelligence Directorate on charges of participating in pro-opposition demonstrations.
On 7 April 2012, Syrian government forces committed a massacre in his hometown of Al-Lataminah, in which 12 of his family members were killed.
On 1 May 2012, he founded the Lataminah Martyrs Brigade, an FSA faction, in Jabal al-Zawiya, which later merged with other FSA factions to become the Gathering of Battalions and Priority of Glory on 1 January 2013.
On 1 July 2015, he announced the establishment of Jaysh al-Izza, the largest opposition faction operating in northern rural Hama at the time, with him serving as its commander-in-chief.
During the 2015 Northwestern Syria offensive, Jamil told Orient News that the opposition factions were "trying to reorganize the ranks of fighters on the various fronts and combat axes through which the regime is attempting to penetrate the region", adding that they were also "seeking to develop a new military plan through which we can inflict a second defeat on Assad's forces in the northern Hama countryside".
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Jamil al-Saleh
Jamil Shahada al-Saleh (Arabic: جميل شحادة الصالح) is a Syrian military officer and former opposition leader, serving as the founding commander of Jaysh al-Izza until its dissolution following the fall of the Assad regime. On 19 February 2025, he was appointed commander of the 74th Division.
He was born in Al-Lataminah, Hama, in 1974.
Prior to the Syrian revolution, Jamil served as a major in the 17th Reserve Division of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the city of Raqqa.
Upon the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, he defected from the SAA in February 2012 and joined the Free Syrian Army (FSA). He planned to defect earlier, in August 2011, with his cousin and ally, Lieutenant Colonel Samer al-Saleh, but delayed it after Samer was arrested by the Air Force Intelligence Directorate on charges of participating in pro-opposition demonstrations.
On 7 April 2012, Syrian government forces committed a massacre in his hometown of Al-Lataminah, in which 12 of his family members were killed.
On 1 May 2012, he founded the Lataminah Martyrs Brigade, an FSA faction, in Jabal al-Zawiya, which later merged with other FSA factions to become the Gathering of Battalions and Priority of Glory on 1 January 2013.
On 1 July 2015, he announced the establishment of Jaysh al-Izza, the largest opposition faction operating in northern rural Hama at the time, with him serving as its commander-in-chief.
During the 2015 Northwestern Syria offensive, Jamil told Orient News that the opposition factions were "trying to reorganize the ranks of fighters on the various fronts and combat axes through which the regime is attempting to penetrate the region", adding that they were also "seeking to develop a new military plan through which we can inflict a second defeat on Assad's forces in the northern Hama countryside".