Agreement of reconciliation between Hurras al-Din and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in the countryside of Aleppo

• Country/entity

  Syria
  
• Region

  Middle East and North Africa
  
• Agreement name

  Agreement of reconciliation between Hurras al-Din and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in the countryside of Aleppo
• Date

  8 Feb 2019
• Agreement status

  Multiparty signed/agreed
• Interim arrangement

  Yes
• Agreement/conflict level

  Intrastate/local conflict ( Syrian Conflicts (1948 - ) (1976 - 2005) (2011 - ) )
• Stage

  Other
• Conflict nature

  Inter-group
• Peace process

  Syrian Local Agreements
• Parties

  Hayʼat Tahrīr al-Shām
  Abu Omar Badia                                                             
  
  Hurrās ad-Dīn
  Abu Abdullah al-Suori
• Third parties

  -
• Description

  An agreement for 'alliance'. A short agreement which commits two groups who were formerly unifed, and then had split, to cooperate to end conflict between them, and undertake joint governance and other forms of cooperation, in order to better fight 'a common enemy'.

• Agreement document

  SY_190208_Agreement of reconciliation between Hurras al-Din and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in the countryside of Aleppo.pdf | Download PDF

Local agreement properties

• Process type

  Informal but persistent process
  
• Rationale

  -> Local issues only; no external support mechanism; culture of signing No formally established mechanism supported the negotiation between the two armed groups. Moreover, this agreement cannot be linked to the national peace process. Indeed, both groups oppose the rule of Bashar al-Assad in Syria and reject the idea of a national negotiation to solve the conflict. Yet, it seems that both signing parties (especially Tahrir al-Sham) choose to solve their quarrels through agreements. Few other agreements were signed by opposition groups in Aleppo governorate from 2017.
• Is there a documented link to a national peace process?

  No
• Link to national process: articulated rationale

  No link to the national peace process in Syria is mentioned in the agreement, neither it can be inferred from further research. First, the agreement does not involve local governance actors; and the signing parties themselves are not official state representative. Second, all parties to the agreement reject the national peace process, as it would maintain Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian government in power.
• Name of Locale

  Tal Hadya
• Nature Of Locale

  Smaller
• GPS Lat/Long (DD)

  35.995119, 36.942429
• Participant type

  Local armed group
  
• Mediator, facilitator or similar

  No mention of mediator or similar

Local issues

Praise be to God and prayers and peace be upon the Messenger of God, his family and companions, and his supporter, and after:

2-6-1440

8-2-2019

In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

Praise be to God, prayer and peace be upon the Messenger of Allah and after...

On Friday night 2/6/1440, the brothers between Hayʼat Tahrīr al-Shām [Organization for the Liberation of the Levant] and brothers in Hurrās ad-Dīn [The Guardians of Religion Organization] sat.

It was a good session filled with a spirit of faith in which the two parties pledged to stop the media quarrelling, and to cooperate with each other to fight the enemy.

Whereas, we count the two groups as Mujahidin who work to support religion and achieve God's will in his land.

The two parties agreed on the Badia incident at the Tal Hadba checkpoint, on the following

1- Forming a court regarding the blood that was [shed] in the accident, in which Sheikh Abu Muhammad Wahb, is to be the judge.

Those who fired from Ḥurrās ad-Dīn to be arrested and transferred to court.

2- In the event that Hurrās ad-Dīn want to carry out an executive action within the Badia, this is not will only be done in coordination with the Badia faction of Hayʼat Taḥrīr al-Shām

God Bless

Hayʼat Tahrīr al-Shām

Abu Omar Badia

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Hurrās ad-Dīn

Abu Abdullah al-Suori

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