Adnan Uqla (Arabic: عدنان عقلة) was a Syrian Islamist insurgent who served as the leader of the Fighting Vanguard; a Sunni militant group connected to the Muslim Brotherhood that led the failed Islamist insurrection in Syria.

[3] Uqla played a key role in the planning of the Aleppo Artillery School massacre in 1979.

[4] Uqla arrived in Hama anticipating the beginning of a general uprising against the Syrian government.

[4] Despite having broken with the Muslim Brotherhood, Uqla was only officially dismissed from his position as leader of the Fighting Vanguard in April 1982, following the Hama Massacre.

[citation needed] Other sources cite him as being killed in 1982,[2] or being caught by Syrian security forces in late 1982.