Northern Aleppo offensive (2016)
| Northern Aleppo offensive (February 2016) | |||||||||
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| Part of the Battle of Aleppo and the Syrian Civil War | |||||||||
.jpg) Syrian soldiers after breaking the siege of Nubl and Zahra |
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 Saudi Arabia Qatar
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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 Abdo Ibrahim(Afrin Canton defense minister)  Sewsen Bîrhat (Aleppo YPJ commander) Wissi Hijazi ("Abu Uday Menagh")(Army of Revolutionaries commander) Zakur al-Diri (POW)(former Mountain Hawks Brigade commander, defected to the Army of Revolutionaries) |
 Hashim al-Sheikh(overall rebel Aleppo commander)  Nimr al-Shukri †(Ahrar ash-Sham Aleppo commander)  Abu Ahmed al Abdullah †(al-Nusra Front Tell Rifaat commander) Abu Mustapha al-Saleh (Levant Front commander) Zekeriya Karsli (Levant Front Turkmen commander)
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 Turkish Land Forces
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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SAA & allies: 143 killed(48 Iraqis, 14 IRGC, 3 Hezbollah, 1 Russian) SDF: 18 killed |
Fighting SAA & allies: 309–335 killed Fighting SDF: 88 killed |
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| 119–168 civilians killed (one Lebanese journalist) 50,000 civilians displaced |
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Syrian Arab Republic
Iran
Russia
Allied militias:
Kata'ib Hezbollah
Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba
Badr Corps
Liwa Fatemiyoun
Hezbollah
Liwa al-Quds
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