Siege of Northern Homs |
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Part of the Syrian Civil War |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/HomsPocket.png/350px-HomsPocket.png) Map of the rebel held pocket in Rastan and surrounding areas |
Date | 14 May 2012 – 29 April 2018 (5 years, 11 months, 2 weeks and 1 day) |
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Location | |
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Result |
Syrian government victory
- Evacuation deal for rebel fighters
- Reopening of Homs-Hama highway and Damascus-Hama highway
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Territorial changes |
Syrian Army recapture the rebel-held pocket in Northern Homs[11] |
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Belligerents |
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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
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)
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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 |
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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 |
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Syrian Armed Forces
Russian Armed Forces
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Free Syrian Army
Jaysh al-Thuwar
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/AQMI_Flag_asymmetric.svg/20px-AQMI_Flag_asymmetric.svg.png) 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
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Badr battalion
Sadr battalion |
Strength |
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Unknown |
3000 (2018 Russian estimate) |
Unknown |