• Country/entity

  Syria
  

• Region

  Middle East and North Africa
  

• Agreement name

  Agreement between al-Nusra Front and factions of the armed opposition in Hafsarja

• Date

  19 Jul 2014

• Agreement status

  Multiparty signed/agreed

• Interim arrangement

  Yes

• Agreement/conflict level

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

• Stage

  Pre-negotiation/process

• Conflict nature

  Inter-group

• Peace process

  Syrian Local Agreements

• Parties

  Yaqoob al-Omar (Jabhat al-Nusra)
  Muhammad Izzedine Khattab (Syria Revolutionaries Front)
  Abdullah Al-Muhaisni (independent)
  Yassin Alloush (Independent)
  Abdel Mon’im Zaid Eddin (Independent)

• Third parties

  -

• Description

  Five-point agreement where parties agree to form a independant Shariah committee of notables to resolve the ongoing conflict in Idlib between Jabhat al-Nusra and some of the Free Syrian Army factions.

• Agreement document

  SY_140719_al-Nusra Front and factions of the armed opposition_EN.pdf | Download PDF

• Agreement document (original language)

  SY_140719_al-Nusra Front and factions of the armed opposition_AR.pdf | Download PDF

Local agreement properties

• Process type

  Informal but persistent process
  

• Rationale

  -> Local issues only; external support mechanism; no culture of signing It is only the second case of a written agreement signed between a Salafi-jihadi group and a secular FSA factions (the other on 11/10/14). Moreover, sources state that the agreement relates to specific issues that arose in a highly localised context.

• 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. The agreement does not involve local governance actors, and the signing parties themselves are not official state representative.

• Name of Locale

  Hafsarja

• Nature Of Locale

  Smaller

• GPS Lat/Long (DD)

  36.018454, 36.528940

• Participant type

  Local armed group
  Domestic religious organisation/leader or other elder
  Local community/civilian group(s)/civil society organisations
  

• Mediator, facilitator or similar

  No mention of mediator or similar

Local issues

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

Praise be to God and prayers and peace be upon the most honorable of the Prophets, Muhammad and upon all his family and companions, and after:

It was agreed to form a Sharia committee to begin resolving the conflict in Idlib between Jabhat al-Nusra and some of the Free Syrian Army factions, provided that it begins its work within 48 hours of its date:

The committee is formed from the following individuals, the sheikhs:

1- Yaqoob al-Omar (Jabhat al-Nusra) [signature]

2- Muhammad Izzedine Khattab (Syria Revolutionaries Front) [signature]

3- Abdullah Al-Muhaisni (independent)

4- Yassin Alloush (Independent) [signature]

5- Abdel Mon’im Zaid Eddin (Independent) [signature]

And that all parties are committed to implementing all rulings and decisions issued by this committee, praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds.

20 Ramadan 1435 AH

19/7/2014