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Jaysh al-Islam (Arabic: جيش الإسلام‎, meaning Army of Islam), formerly known as Liwa al-Islam or the Brigade of Islam, is a coalition of multiple Islamist and Salafist units involved in the Syrian Civil War. Its primary base of operations are the Damascus neighbourhoods of Douma and Eastern Ghouta. Jaysh al-Islam is the largest rebel faction in the area, as was its predecessor. The group is part of the Islamic Front. The organization has rejected membership of the Free Syrian Army. It has been critical of Hamas, accusing Khaled Mashal of having Iranian links.

Zahran Alloush (1971-25 December 2015) was a Syrian rebel leader active during the Syrian Civil War. He was the commander of Jaysh al-Islam, a major component of the Islamic Front, of which he was the military chief, and was described as one of the most powerful persons in rebel-held Syria. Alloush called for the cleansing of all Alawites and Shiites in Damascus, later telling Western journalists that these and similar statements had been caused by the pressure and "psychological stress" he was under from living through the Syrian Government's siege of Ghouta. He was reported killed in Syria on 25 December 2015 by an airstrike.