Jamal Maarouf

Jamal Maarouf is a Syrian revolutionary. He was one of the most powerful rebel leaders in northern Syria during the earlier stages of the Syrian Civil War. He was the military chief of the Syrian Revolutionaries Front and leader of the Syrian Martyrs' Brigade, both part of the Free Syrian Army.

Biography Before the uprising against president Bashar al-Assad, Jamal Maarouf was a construction worker. He was one of the first to take up arms in the Idlib province against the Assad regime.

On 16 October 2020, Maarouf broke his long years of silence by putting a statement online, praising those who stand against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. He also put forward an open initiative aimed at establishing a unified military council.