Watad Petroleum is a company that imports petroleum from Turkey based in rebel held areas of northwestern Syria and founded in the largely rebel held Idlib Governorate in 2017 presumably by the rebel group known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which was also established in January 2017 by 5 other rebel groups including Jabhat Fateh al-Sham which prior to disassociating itself from al-Qaeda and changing its name was known as the al-Nusra Front and was al-Qaeda's official branch in Syria until 2016.