Jama'at Ansar al-Furqan in Bilad al Sham

Jama'at Ansar al-Furqan in Bilad al Sham (Arabic: جماعة أنصار الفرقان في بلاد الشام; lit.

"Supporters of the Criterion in the Levant") was an armed jihadist group that was active in Syria which was established in the fall of 2017 by former members of Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar.

[1][9] In the group's charter it claimed to be at war with the government of Bashar al-Assad, Turkey, the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army, Russia, Shias and atheists.

The group also reportedly had a large number of veteran al-Qaeda fighters from the Arabian Peninsula and South Asia.

[10] After the group's formation, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) arrested the group's leadership in November 2017, as well as Sami al-Oraydi, who left HTS and was formerly al-Nusra's top Sharia official.