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”.