Draft:Xhemati Alban

Xhemati Alban
Xhemati Alban
	Flag of Xhemati Alban
Leader	Abdul Jashari
Foundation	2012
Dates of operation	2017 - present
Allegiance	File:Flag of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.svg Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
Active regions	Idlib Governorate, Northern Aleppo
Ideology	Sunni Islamism; Salafism; Jihadism; Syrian opposition;
Size	60-100
Opponents	Syria;
Battles and wars	Syrian civil war 2015 Idlib offensive; ;

Xhemati Alban (Arabic: جماعة الألبان) is a small Sunni Albanian jihadi militant group composed of ethnic Albanian fighters from Kosovo, Albania, North Macedonia, and the Presheva valley which operates in the Syrian civil war in Idlib Governorate/North Aleppo.^[2]

History

Xhemati Alban claims to have been established in 2012, but reports suggest that the group only started operations in 2017. The group is headed by the ethnic Albanian citizen of North Macedonia, Abu Qatada al-Albani (Abdul Jashari). ^[3]

References

[1] ttps://www.danielegarofalomonitoring.com/p/albanian-jihadists-in-syria

[2] "The media comeback of Albanian Tactical".

[3] ttps://silahreport.com/2021/03/27/albanians-fighting-in-syria-xhemati-alban-in-2020-part-1/

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