The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Somalia was a Somali insurgent group, fighting against the government of Siad Barre.
[1] DFLS was led by a group of former Central Committee members of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party (SRSP), who considered that Siad Barre had deviated from the revolutionary path.
[2] The movement was founded around 1978 by Abdirahman Aidid Ahmad, former chairman of the Ideological Bureau of SRSP.
[2][3] DFLS had its headquarters in Aden, South Yemen.
[2] Reportedly, DFLS fighters obtained military training in Syria.