The group was created on 1 February 2025 in
Syria by
Abu Aisha al-Shami, who had left
Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) after perceiving it to be lenient towards Shia Muslims and Alawites. The same day, it claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 12 Alawites in
Arzah, and its fighters attacked
Tell Dahab and killed five former security members of the
Ba'athist government. On 4 April 2025, Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah claimed to have killed an Alawite man and his relative in
Safita,
Tartus Governorate. A day later the group claimed an attack which killed a former
National Defence Forces member in
Homs Governorate, as well as kidnapping three Alawites from
Sqoubin,
Latakia Governorate in a separate attack. On 8 April 2025, Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah claimed that one of its members drove up to an Alawite civilian and shot him in the majority Alawite neighborhood of
Wadi al Dahab in
Homs, the group justified the attacks by claiming that the person was a "criminal" and affiliated with the former Ba'athist Government. On 9 April 2025 it stated that it killed 20 Alawites over the past week, with the Institute for the Study of War comparing its rhetoric to the "ideology of
al-Qaeda and
ISIS". On 9 May, Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah assassinated a former
National Defense Forces commander in the al-
Waer neighborhood of Homs City. The slain commander was known for his efforts to organize a military defense of Homs City against HTS before the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. In a separate attack, Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah also assassinated a Shia Assad regime fighter for his association with
Liwa al-Quds in the
al-Mashad neighborhood of Aleppo city. On 10 May, it published a statement declaring itself to be active in the city of
Tripoli, Lebanon, threatening to "strike the apostates among the
Nusayris, the
Rawafed, and the
Druze" there. On 21 May, the newspaper
An-Nahar published an interview with the head of Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah's
Sharia division
Abu al-Fath al-Shami, who stated that the militant organisation was founded in secret in
Idlib prior to the
fall of the previous Syrian government. According to him, the organisation came out of secrecy in order to publicly distance themselves from the regime of
Ahmed al-Sharaa, who he described as an untrustworthy tyrant. He also stated that the organisation contained members who had defected from HTS, along with defectors from other militias and civilians who had joined the group. Describing the organisation's priorities, he stated that they do not currently see a need to confront the Syrian transitional regime's military forces, despite having declared them to be apostates. According to him, the organisation is presently focused on attacking Alawites, Druze, Shiites, and the
SDF forces in Northeast Syria. On 10 June 2025, Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah claimed responsibility for killing a former Assad Regime member and injuring another in
Dijabijja, Homs Governorate and killed an Alawite man in Tartus. During the
Southern Syria clashes in July, the organisation said that it would expand its sectarian attacks to include the Druze community in Suwayda. The group claimed responsibility for the
Imam Ali Mosque attack, which took place in December 2025. ==Ideology==