Katibat Junud al-Makhdi (commonly referred to as just Junud al-Makhdi) is a Syrian Civil War-era jihadist rebel group created by a merger of two smaller groups operating in Northern Syria, composed exclusively of Tatar and Bashkir fighters.

The group's fighters hail mainly from Tatarstan and Bashkortostan as well as other areas in Russia with Tatar and Bashkir populations.

The group was created by a merger of Jamaat Bulgar and Jaish al-Shomal al-Islam in mid-2016 (each made up of Tatar fighters from Russia).

[3] The group cooperates with the Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria as well as local Syrian Turkmen Brigades in the Latakia Governorate because of linguistic similarities in the Turkic languages.

The group also calls on Russian Muslims to join its ranks as well as wage war domestically, and claims to have members active in both Russia and Yemen.