Siege of Northern Homs
| Siege of Northern Homs | ||||||||||
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| Part of the Syrian Civil War | ||||||||||
Map of the rebel held pocket in Rastan and surrounding areas | ||||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||||
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Russia (From 2015) Syrian Social Nationalist Party Ba'ath Brigades Hezbollah Shiite Militias |
Northern Homs Countryside Operation Room (2015–2018)
Authenticity and Development Front
Houla Operations Room (From 2015)
Jaysh al-Thuwar (2015) Hazzm Movement (2014) |
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Jund al-Sham
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| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||||
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Gen. Hassan Daaboul † Ibrahim Darwish (WIA) Suheil al-Hassan |
Abu Omar al-Ghota Abu Khalid al-Hamuy † Abu Ramah al-Hamuy † Amir Musa Hableut † Rawad al-Aksah † Abdul Baset al-Sarout |
Rafid Taha Abu Dawud (Ahlul Sunnah wal Jama’a leader) | ||||||||
| Units involved | ||||||||||
Authenticity and Development Front
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Badr battalion Sadr battalion | |||||||||
| Strength | ||||||||||
| Unknown | 3,000 (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, the rebel-held pocket in northern Homs was fully taken by the Syrian government in 2018 after clearing opposition held areas around the capital.