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Central Syria campaign | |||||||
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Part of the Battle of Deir ez-Zor and the Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war | |||||||
Situation in central Syria, showing advancements of the Syrian Army | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Russia[1] Iran[2] Allied militias: Hezbollah[3] PMF-affiliated militias Syrian Resistance Liwa Fatemiyoun[4] Al-Quds Brigade[5] Galilee Forces[6] Brigades of the Den[7] | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Maj. Gen. Suheil al-Hassan[3] (Operations chief commander) Maj. Gen. Issam Zahreddine (Republican Guard commander) Brig. Gen. Mohamed Khaddour[12] (commander of eastern Syria) Gen. Ghassan Iskendar Taraf (WIA)[13] (Al-Qassem commander) Ahmed Salman Salloum †[14] (Tiger Forces senior commander) Wael Zaidan †[15] (Tiger Forces commander) Nawaf Al-Bashir[16] (Al-Baggara Sheikh) Omar Al-Hassan[16] (al-Baqir Brigade commander) Maj. Gen. Mustafa Khosh Mohammadi †[2] (IRGC commander) Col. Morteza Hosseinpour-Shalmani †[17] (Iranian-led Iraqi contingent operations commander) Gen. Abdullah Khosrawi †[18] (Commander of Fatahin battalion) Ali al-Aa'shiq †[19] (Radwan Force commander) Anwar Yawri †[4] (Liwa Fatemiyoun commander) Turki Albu Hamad[20] (Forces of the Fighters of the Tribes chief commander) Fadi al-Mellah[6] (Galilee Forces commander) |
Gulmurod Khalimov[21] (ISIL war minister, reported killed by Russia) Abu Muhammad al-Shimali[21] (Deir ez-Zor emir, reported killed by Russia) Abu Khuzaymah al-Tunisi [22] (Hisbah police chief) Abu Saraqah Al-Trablosi †[23] (ISIL top commander of Hama Governate) | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
Russian forces
Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hezbollah Syrian Resistance
PMF-affiliated militias |
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Strength | |||||||
50,000 (pro-government claim)[37] | Several thousand fighters | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
912 killed[38] (10 IRGC, 36 Hezbollah killed)[39][40] 17 killed (15 PMCs)[41][42] | 1,394 killed[43] | ||||||
190 civilians killed[44][45][46][47] |
The Central Syria campaign, known as "Operation Khuzam", or "Lavender",[48] was a large-scale military operation of the Syrian Army (SAA) against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the Syrian Civil War. Its goal was to capture the strategic oil town of Al-Sukhnah, and besiege and capture 11,000 square kilometers of ISIL territory in central Syria,[49][50] after which the Syrian Army would advance towards Deir ez-Zor,[51] and lift the three-year ISIL siege of the government's enclave in the city.[52][53] Afterwards, the Syrian Army advanced towards the Islamic State's then-capital of Mayadin.[54]
The campaign was concurrent with the Raqqa campaign conducted by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against the Islamic State's former capital city and stronghold in Syria, Raqqa. In addition, the SDF launched their own offensive in mid-September south along the Euphrates River, after Syrian government forces reached Deir ez-Zor city.
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