Syrian opposition (disambiguation)
Syrian opposition (2011–2024) refers to groups opposing the Ba'athist Syrian government and former president Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian civil war. Jihadist groups such as the Islamic State are generally not included under that definition.
Syrian opposition may specifically refer to:
Civil society
Before Syrian civil war
- Organizations founded abroad to oppose the Assad regime:
- Signatories of the statement of 99 and the statement of 1000
- Platforms that emerged during the Damascus Spring
- Organizations associated with the Damascus Declaration
- Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, opposition to Syria since Hafez al-Assad
During Syrian civil war
- Syrian National Council, a major opposition coalition founded in 2011
- National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, or Syrian National Coalition (SNC), successor to the Syrian National Council founded in 2012
- Local Coordination Committees of Syria, groups formed in Syria during the early stages of the uprising
- National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change, an opposition coalition that favored negotiations with the regime
- Other groups:
Others
- Syrian Negotiation Commission (known from 2015 to 2017 as the High Negotiations Committee) in the context of the Syrian peace negotiations
- Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (Rojava), a de facto Kurdish-led autonomous region
- Syrian Democratic Council, lawmaking body
- Syrian Democratic Forces, military forces
Political groups
Systemic opposition
- Popular Front for Change and Liberation, a coalition of Syrian political parties and the official political opposition within the People's Assembly of Syria during Bashar al-Assad's rule
Non-systemic opposition
- Syrian Salvation Government, affiliated with HTS
- Syrian Interim Government, affiliated with the SNC
Armed factions
- Free Syrian Army, the main armed rebel faction during the early stages of the civil war
- Several Islamist groups:
- Other armed factions in the Syrian civil war opposed to the Ba'athist regime during the civil war:
- Military Operations Command (affiliated with HTS)
- Syrian National Army (affiliated with the Syrian Interim Government)
- Southern Front
- Syrian Liberation Front
- Syrian Free Army
See also
- Syrian civil war, 2011-2024 multi-sided civil war in Syria
- Inter-rebel conflict during the Syrian civil war, conflict among factions of the Syrian opposition and Free Syrian Army throughout the Syrian Civil War
- Syrian Social Nationalist Party, a party in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Palestine that advocates a Greater Syrian nation state
- Hizb ut-Tahrir, an international pan-Islamist and fundamentalist political organization