Second Battle of the Shaer gas field
| Second Battle of the Shaer gas field | |||||||||
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| Part of the Syrian Civil War | |||||||||
 Shaer gas field
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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 Syrian Resistance
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| Hassan Abbous (IS emir of Homs) |
Colonel Suheil al-Hassan (Overall and Tiger Forces commander) Colonel Mohammad Jaber (Suqur al-Sahara commander) Fadi ‘Isma’el † (NDF commander) |
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| Military of ISIL |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 200+ killed, 73 captured (military source) | 58 killed (military source) | ||||||||
The Second Battle of the Shaer gas field is a battle between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Syrian government for the control over the Sha'er gas field during the Syrian Civil War. It is the second attack that was launched by ISIL on the gas field.
In mid-July 2014, radical jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) attacked and captured the field from government forces, which was followed by an Army counter-attack which drove ISIS back out. It was one of the deadliest battles up-to-date in the war between fighters of the militant group and government troops.
On 28 October, ISIL re-attacked the Sha'er gas field, leaving at least 30 government troops and an unknown number of ISIS insurgents dead. ISIS managed to capture large parts of the oil and gas field. However, Al-Masdar put the death tolls at 18 government troops and over 30 ISIS militants, while 11 soldiers were wounded. It also claimed that by 9 AM the Army had recaptured parts of the gas field the next day and recaptured wells 101 and 102 of the gas field on the 30th.
SOHR, however, reported that ISIL regained control over the Shaer Gas field on 30 October, forcing the Syrian Army to pull back from the area. According to the MASAR news agency, at this point, 50 soldiers and 15 ISIL fighters were killed in the clashes. It was also reported that ISIS captured 17 soldiers and many military vehicles. The next day, ISIL took control over the Hayyan Gas Company affiliated to Sha’er Gas Field and, according to SOHR, could cut off the Damscus-Tadmor-Homs highway, upon reaching the Hama-Raqqa road junction.
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