Siege of Northern Homs

Siege of Northern Homs
Part of the Syrian Civil War

Map of the rebel held pocket in Rastan and surrounding areas
Date14 May 2012 – 29 April 2018
(5 years, 11 months, 2 weeks and 1 day)
Location
Result

Syrian government victory

  • Evacuation deal for rebel fighters
  • Reopening of Homs-Hama highway and Damascus-Hama highway
Territorial
changes
Syrian Army recapture the rebel-held pocket in Northern Homs[11]
Belligerents

 Syria

 Russia (From 2015)
Syrian Social Nationalist Party
Ba'ath Brigades
Hezbollah
Shiite Militias

Northern Homs Countryside Operation Room (2015–2018)

Free Syrian Army

Authenticity and Development Front

  • Tawhid Army[3]

Jaysh al-Nasr

  • Harakat al-Fedayeen (From 2015)

Houla Operations Room (From 2015)

  • Liwa Ahfad Othman
  • Brigade 313 – Free Men of Aqrab
Ansar al-Khilafah (From 2013)[4]
Jaysh al-Thuwar (2015)[5][6]
Hazzm Movement (2014)

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant[7] Jund al-Sham[8][9]

  • Assoud al-Islam Brigade
  • Bayada Martyr's Brigade (Allegedly by al-Nusra)
Ahlul Sunnah wal Jama’a[10]
Commanders and leaders
Gen. Hassan Daaboul  [12]
Ibrahim Darwish (WIA)
Suheil al-Hassan
Abu Omar al-Ghota[13]
Abu Khalid al-Hamuy  [14]
Abu Ramah al-Hamuy  
Amir Musa Hableut  [15]
Rawad al-Aksah  [16]
Abdul Baset al-Sarout
Rafid Taha
Abu Dawud (Ahlul Sunnah wal Jama’a leader)
Units involved

Syrian Armed Forces

Russian Armed Forces

Free Syrian Army

  • Jaysh al-Thuwar
    • Liwa Ahfad Othman (Until 2015)
    • Harakat al-Fedayeen (Until 2015)[17]
    • Brigade 313 – Free Men of Aqrab (Until 2015)
    • Regiment 777 (From 2015)
    • Gathering Homs Revolutionaries
  • Khalid ibn al-Walid Brigade
  • Farouq Brigades
    • Regiment 777 (Until 2015)
  • al-Qadisiya Brigades
  • Herr Binafsah Brigade
  • Central Region Command
  • 4th Legion
  • Tawhid Army
  • Homs Army
  • Brigade 313 – Soldiers of Badr
  • Tawhid Brigade
  • Bayada Martyr's Brigade

Authenticity and Development Front

  • Tawhid Army[19]
    • Tajamuu Alwiyat al-Iman Billah
    • Liwa Hamah al-Aqidah
    • Lions of Islam Brigade
    • Talbisah Brigade
    • Falcons of Talbisah Brigade
    • Muawiyah Ibn Abi Sufyan Brigade
    • Sword of Islam Battalion
    • Tajamuu Alwiyat wa Kataib Suyuf al-Haq
  • Kataib Abd al-Rahman
Badr battalion
Sadr battalion
Strength
Unknown 3000 (2018 Russian estimate) Unknown

The siege of Northern Homs was a siege lasting six years, by the Syrian government in the northern part of the Homs Governorate during the Syrian civil war, as a result of the rebel capture of Rastan and surrounding areas in 2012,[20] the rebel-held pocket in northern Homs was fully taken by the Syrian government in 2018 after clearing opposition held areas around the capital.[21]

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