JIHADIST GROUP #2: Harakat Muhajirin Ahl Sunnat Iran

Iranian Sunni immigrants in Syria

Organisation overview:

Name: Harakat Muhajirin Ahl Sunnat Iran - “The movement of Iranian Sunni migrants”.

Founded: 2012/2013

Headquarters: Idlib, Northwest Syria

Military Operations Area: North Latakia, North Hama, West Aleppo.

Group composition: Iranian Kurds and Balochs

Ideology: Jihadism, Jihadist Salafism

Typology: Armed group/insurgent

Leader: Abu Safiya al-Kurdi

Alliances: Allied with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), integrated into HTS as Liwa “Omar bin al-Khattab”, but with independent propaganda in the Persian Language.

Overview:

The “Muhajireen Movement of the Sunnis of Iran” is a Jihadist Salafist group composed exclusively of Iranian Sunni fighters, mainly Kurds and Beluchis, mostly from the northwestern regions of Iran. They are integrated within HTS as Liwa “Omar bin al-Khattab”.