Ithriyah-Raqqa offensive (June 2016)

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Ithriyah-Raqqa offensive (June 2016)
Part of the Syrian Civil War
Date 2–22 June 2016 (2 weeks and 6 days) Location Southwestern Raqqa Governorate, Syria Result ISIL victory The Syrian Army withdraws from all positions it had taken in western Raqqa
Belligerents
Syrian Arab Republic Syrian Armed Forces National Defense Force[1] SSNP[1] Ba'ath Brigades[2] Quwat al-Jalil[1] Arab Nationalist Guard[3] Russia Aerospace Forces[4]	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Commanders and leaders
Major General Hassan Saado †[5] (10th Mechanised Division chief-of-staff)	Ahmad Kafrouma †[6] (Emir of Al-Tabqa Airbase)
Units involved
Syrian Army: Desert Hawk Brigade[7] Tiger Forces[8] Syrian Marines[9] 4th Armoured Division 550th Regiment 555th Regiment[10] 10th Mechanised Division[5] National Defence Forces: Golan Regiment Military Intelligence Directorate Military Security Shield Forces[9] Syrian Air Force Russian Armed Forces Russian special operations forces[3]	Military of ISIL
Strength
4,800–5,000 soldiers[11]	Unknown
Casualties and losses
39–93 killed[12][13][14]	126 killed[14]
10 civilians killed[15]

The Ithriyah-Raqqa offensive (June 2016) was a military operation launched in June 2016 by the Syrian Army with the stated goal of recapturing Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.^[16] The battle resulted in an Islamic State victory, after a series of counterattacks caused the Syrian Army to withdraw from the positions it had retaken in western Raqqa Governorate.