on 18 August 2014. In late 2013 the former
Supreme Military Council chief of staff
Salim Idris planned to form the Hazzm Movement in response him being sacked as the chief of staff. The previous incarnation of the group, called Harakat Zaman Mohamed (
The movement of the time of Muhammad), was supported by the
Muslim Brotherhood of Syria. in a covert
CIA program launched in 2014. Scores of the group's fighters also received U.S. military training in
Qatar under the same program. Following the loss of men and weapons to Nusra, the Idlib branch of Hazzm stopped receiving funds from the CIA in December 2014, funds to the
Aleppo branch continued. In January 2015, al-Nusra attacked Hazzm Movement positions in the
Aleppo Governorate. The Hazzm Movement reacted by joining the
Levant Front, a large alliance of prominent Aleppo-based
Islamist rebel groups; the alliance urged al Nusra to resolve its dispute with the Hazzm Movement by negotiating with the Levant Front. On 3 May 2015, some of the former members of the northern branches of the Hazzm Movement, including the Atarib Martyrs Brigade, and the
Syrian Revolutionaries Front along with
Jabhat al-Akrad, the
Dawn of Freedom Brigades main component group the
Northern Sun Battalion (making the
Dawn of Freedom Brigades defunct in the process) and smaller FSA groups formed the
Army of Revolutionaries. Many of the northern members of the
Syrian Revolutionaries Front and Hazzm Movement also joined the
Levant Front. During the
Turkish military intervention in Syria which started in late August 2016, some former members of the Syrian Revolutionaries Front and the Hazzm Movement in exile from Turkey crossed into Syria through
Jarabulus. In late December 2016, the Hazzm Movement, the SRF, and the Ansar Brigades in exile reportedly declared their intentions to return to Syria. ==Component groups and structure==