Battle of Anadan

Battle of Anadan; معركة عندان
	Part of the Battle of Aleppo and the 2012–13 escalation of the Syrian Civil War
	; Rebel fighters with a captured Syrian Army T-55 at the Anadan checkpoint during the battle
Date	29–30 July 2012
Location	Anadan, Aleppo Governorate
Result	Rebel victory Rebels gain control of Anadan checkpoint;
Belligerents
Free Syrian Army	Syrian Arab Republic Syrian Armed Forces;
Commanders and leaders
Gen. Abdel Nasser Firzat; 1st Lt. Rifaat Khalil; (Muthanna ibn Haritha Battalion)	Unknown
Units involved
Conquest Brigade Muthanna ibn Haritha Battalion; Al-Tawhid Brigade Free North Battalion;	Syrian Army Infantry Border Guard Brigade 111th Regiment; ;
Strength
150 fighters; 1 BMP-1	130+ soldiers; 12 tanks; 1 helicopter
Casualties and losses
4 killed	6 killed,; 25 captured,; 1–2 main battle tanks destroyed and; 8 captured; 5 APCs captured

The Battle of Anadan (Arabic: معركة عندان) was a ten-hour-long armed confrontation between the rebels of the Free Syrian Army and soldiers of the Syrian Army that occurred when FSA forces attempted to overrun a large army checkpoint in the Anadan area.^[11] At the end of the battle, FSA fighters successfully seized the checkpoint.

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^ "Syria: Rebels Plan Own Assault On Aleppo". Sky News. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Syria rebels seize strategic checkpoint - thenews.com.pk". The News International, Pakistan. 30 July 2012. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
^ ^a ^b "CNN inside Syria: Firefight for control of army base – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs". Archived from the original on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Bashar soldiers 'fled like rats': rebels | News24". News24. 30 July 2012. Archived from the original on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
^ "FSA seizes checkpoint between Aleppo, Turkey as France to seek U.N. meeting". English.alarabiya.net. Archived from the original on 2016-02-03. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
^ ^a ^b Bolling (2012), p. 9.
^ "Syrian rebels seize strategic checkpoint between Aleppo and Turkey, according to rebel officer". Al Jazeera Blogs. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
^ "Syrian troops 'fled like rats' in checkpoint fight". Archived from the original on August 1, 2012. Retrieved July 31, 2012.

[fled-1] Cite error: The named reference fled was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[FOOTNOTEBolling20128,_9-2] Bolling (2012), pp. 8, 9.

[FOOTNOTEBolling20128-3] Bolling (2012), p. 8.

[autogenerated1-4] "Syria: Rebels Plan Own Assault On Aleppo". Sky News. Retrieved 25 October 2014.

[thenews1-5] "Syria rebels seize strategic checkpoint - thenews.com.pk". The News International, Pakistan. 30 July 2012. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2014.

[autogenerated2-6] "CNN inside Syria: Firefight for control of army base – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs". Archived from the original on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2014.

[news3-7] "Bashar soldiers 'fled like rats': rebels | News24". News24. 30 July 2012. Archived from the original on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2014.

[8] "FSA seizes checkpoint between Aleppo, Turkey as France to seek U.N. meeting". English.alarabiya.net. Archived from the original on 2016-02-03. Retrieved 2015-05-20.

[FOOTNOTEBolling20129-9] Bolling (2012), p. 9.

[10] "Syrian rebels seize strategic checkpoint between Aleppo and Turkey, according to rebel officer". Al Jazeera Blogs. Retrieved 25 October 2014.

[gulf-times1-11] "Syrian troops 'fled like rats' in checkpoint fight". Archived from the original on August 1, 2012. Retrieved July 31, 2012.

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