Battle of al-Qusayr (2012)

Battle of al-Qusayr
	Part of the Syrian War early insurgency phase and Hezbollah involvement in the Syrian Civil War
Date	10 February - 20 April 2012; (2 months, 1 week and 3 days)
Location	Al-Qusayr, Homs Governorate, Syria
Result	Stalemate The FSA controls the northern half of the city, the Army controls the southern half.; The Syrian Army, supported by Hezbollah launches a counter-offensive in April 2013;
Belligerents
Free Syrian Army	Syrian Arab Republic Syrian Army; Security agencies; Hezbollah
Commanders and leaders
Abu Arab (FSA); Bakr Mustafa (FSA); Abdel Ghani Jawhar (Fatah al-Islam) †	Unknown
Units involved
Farouq Brigades (FSA); Wadi Brigades; 77th Brigade (FSA)	1st Armoured Division
Strength
Unknown overall 120 FSA Farouq Brigade fighters; Unknown FSA 77th Brigade fighters; 30 Fatah al-Islam fighters; 1 tank;	400 Army soldiers and militia; 15 tanks

The first of the two battles in al-Qusayr was fought by the Syrian army and Shabiha^[4] against the Free Syrian Army in the small city of Al-Qusayr, near Homs, during late winter and spring of 2012.