The group also stole money and looted from warehouses in the al-Layramoun district of Aleppo and Kafr Hamrah.

[1] The group was originally formed as the Free Anadan Brigade by Ahmad Afash, a rebel from the Khalidiya district of Aleppo.

[1] In late October 2012, amid infighting between the People's Protection Units and other rebel groups in Aleppo, the Free Syrian Brigade abducted 120 Kurdish civilians in the area.

Tensions brewed between Hayani and Ahmad Afash after the Badr Martyrs Brigade clashed with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in October 2013.

[18] Since November 2015, the group has participated in the shelling of Aleppo's Sheikh Maqsood neighborhood, controlled by the People's Protection Units as part of the Syrian Democratic Forces.