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Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016)

Battle of Aleppo
معركة حلب
Part of the Syrian Civil War
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The situation in Aleppo in 22 December 2016, the end of the battle

     Syrian Arab Army control      Opposition control (including al-Nusra Front)      YPG control      ISIL control      Joint SAA-YPG control

     Confrontation or unclear situation
Date 19 July 2012 – 22 December 2016
(4 years, 5 months and 3 days)
Location Aleppo, Syria
Result

Decisive Syrian Army & allied victory

  • City divided between a government-held west and rebel-held east, with two northern districts YPG-held, from July 2012 to November 2016
  • UNESCO World Heritage Site Ancient City of Aleppo largely destroyed in the fighting
  • In December 2016, pro-government forces gained control of all of the formerly rebel-held east
  • Rebels still hold one neighborhood and parts of two others in the outskirts of the city, YPG controls Shaikh Maqsood
Territorial
changes
Syrian Army and allied forces capture all rebel-held districts of Aleppo except al-Rashidin, as well as parts of Jam’eyyat al-Zahra’a and Al-Layramoun in the outskirts
Belligerents

Syria Syrian Arab Republic
Iran (from 2013)
Russia (from September 2015)
Allied militias:
Emblem of Liwa Al-Quds.svg Liwa al-Quds(from 2013)
Hezbollah(from 2013)
Popular Mobilization Forces(from 2016)
Liwa Fatemiyoun
Liwa Zainebiyoun
Ba'ath Brigades
SSNP(from 2016)

Syrian Resistance

Fatah Halab operations room.jpg Fatah Halab (2015–2016)
Jaysh Halab (December 2016)
Army of Conquest (since mid-2016)
Ansar-al-Sharia-Aleppo.jpg Ansar al-Sharia (2015–2016)
Syria Free Syrian Army

YPG
YPJ

Army of Revolutionaries
Commanders and leaders

Ali Abdullah Ayyoub
(Chief of the General Staff)
Suheil al-Hasan
(Head of Aleppo military operations)
Qasem Soleimani
(Major General of IRGC)
Viktor Bondarev
(Russian Air Force Commander-in-Chief)
Maher al-Assad
(4th Division)
Mohammed Akkad
(Governor of Aleppo)

Abdul Jabbar al-Oqaidi
(FSA Aleppo top commander, 2013)
Flag of the Army of Mujahedeen (Syria).png Taufik Shiabuddin
(Army of Mujahideen)

Zoran Birhat
(YPJ senior commander)
Sharvan Efrin
(YPG commander)

Nujin Derik
(YPJ commander)
Sewsen Bîrhat (YPJ commander)
Units involved

Syrian Armed Forces

Iran Iranian Armed Forces

Russian Armed Forces

Popular Mobilization Forces

Hezbollah