Fighting Vanguard of the Mujahidin | |
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الطليعة المقاتلة للمجاهدين | |
Leader | Marwan Hadid (until June 1975)[1] Abdel Sattar az-Za’im (until mid-1979)[2][3] Adnan Uqlah (June 1979 – late 1982)[4][5] |
Foundation | 1960s[6] |
Dissolved | 1982[7] |
Split from | Muslim Brotherhood in Syria |
Country | Syria |
Ideology | Islamism |
The Fighting Vanguard of the Mujahideen (Arabic: الطليعة المقاتلة للمجاهدين, al-Tali’a al-Muqatila lil-Mujahidin),[1] also known as the Fighting Vanguard of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria (Arabic: الطليعة المقاتلة للإخوان المسلمين في سوريا),[8] was an offshoot of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood that took part in violent actions against the ruling Baath regime during the Islamist uprising in Syria mainly between 1976 and 1982.