"Ahrar al Sham draws its members from followers of a conservative strain
of Islam known as Salafism; its followers see themselves as fighting in
part for the right to preach their doctrine and the fall of a government
that jailed them for doing so." The News Tribune,online 17 July


According to source on 08 Aug 2012, unknown location (probably Northern Syria, near Idlib or Hama, operation area of Ahrar Al Sham Battalion)