2016 Aleppo campaign

2016 Aleppo campaign
Part of the Battle of Aleppo (2012–present) and the Syrian Civil War

Battle map of Aleppo during September 2016.


Map of Northern Syria during the offensive, with the area shown within the Aleppo City map marked by the box.
  Syrian Armed Forces
  Syrian Democratic Forces
  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
  Rebel Forces
Date25 June 2016[1] – 11 September 2016
(2 months, 2 weeks and 3 days)
LocationAleppo, Syria
Result

Major Syrian Army and allies victory

  • Army captures Castello road, besieging rebel-held areas of Aleppo[2][3][4]
  • Army captures the al-Layramoun,[5] Bani Zeid[6] and Ashrafiyah districts,[7] and advances in the al-Khalidiyah district
  • Rebel counter-offensive opens a new unsecured corridor via the Ramouseh district,[8][9][10] which is later recaptured by the Army, with rebel-held eastern Aleppo once again besieged[11][12]
Belligerents

Syrian Arab Republic

Iran[13]

Liwa al-Quds[16]
Ba'ath Brigades[17]
Hezbollah[16]
Liwa Fatemiyoun[13]
Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba[18]
Syrian Resistance[19]
Supported by:
 Russia[16] (Airstrikes)

Syrian Democratic Forces (27–30 July;[21] 12–17 August[22])

Fatah Halab
Army of Conquest[23]

Ansar al-Islam[25]
Supported by:
Turkey Turkey[27]
Commanders and leaders

Fahd Jassem al-Freij[28]
(Minister of Defense)
Maj. Gen. Suheil Al Hassan[29]
(Tiger Forces chief commander)
Maj. Gen. Adib Mohammed[30]
(Head of Aleppo security committee, replaced)
Maj. Gen. Zaid Saleh[30]
(Replacement head of Aleppo security committee)
Maj. Gen. Adib Salameh[31]
(Head of Aleppo Air Force Intelligence Directorate branch)
Brig. Gen. Deeb Bazi †[32][33]
(Airforce Technical Base commander)
Brig. Gen. Asif Kheir Bek (DOW)[34]
(Artillery School commander)
Gen. Yasir Muhsin Miya †[35]
(Syrian Army commander)
Gen. Muhammad Ali Sharbo †[35]
(Syrian Army commander)
Maj. Gen. Mahmoud Hassan (DOW)[36]
(147th Regiment Chief of Staff)
Maj. Duraid Abu ‘Ammar[37]
(Tiger Forces commander)
Suleiman al-Shwakh[38]
(Desert Commandos commander)
Mudar Makhlouf[19]
(Military Security Shield Forces commander)
Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani[37][39]
(Quds Force chief commander)
Gen. Dariush Darsti †[40]
(IRGC commander)
Maj. Abolghassem Zahiri (WIA)[13]
(102nd Imam Hossein Battalion commander)
Ahmad Gholami †[15]
(Iranian paramilitary commander)
Haj Sameer Ali Awada †[41]
(Hezbollah top commander, alleged)
Hassan Mousa Abdul Nabi †[42]
(Hezbollah commander)
Ali Muhammad Mustafa Khalil †[43]
(Imam Hujja Regiment commander)

Zoran Birhat[44]
(YPJ senior commander)
Sharvan Efrin[44]
(YPG commander)
Unknown YPG commander †[45]		 Maj. Yasser Abd al-Rahim[46]
(official leader of Fatah Halab)
Ammar Shaaban †[47]
(Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki top commander)
Col. Mohammad Bakkar †[48]
(Sham Legion top commander)
Kamal Ahmad †[49]
(8th Brigade commander)
Abdel-Rahman Mansour †[50]
(Islamic Safwah Movement commander)
Yusuf Zo'ah †[51]
(Army of Mujahideen general commander)
(Army of Mujahideen commander)
Abu Hajer Al-Homsi †[52]
(nome de guerre: Abu Omar Saraqib,[53] Army of Conquest commander of Idlib province and Jabhat Fatah chief military commander)[54]
Abdullah al-Muhaysini[55]
(Jabhat Fateh cleric and leader)
Abu Al-Muthanna  †[49]
("Inghimassiyeen" commander)
Khaled Abu Anas[56]
(Ahrar al-Sham senior commander)
Mustafa Al-Bayyour †[57]
(Ahrar al-Sham top commander)
Khattab Abou Ahmad †[58]
(Abu Amara Brigades chief commander)
Abu Hamza Al-Shami †[59]
(5th Brigade commander)
Saif Allah †[60]
(Ahrar al-Sham tank commander)
Ali Hamam †[26]
(Ajnad al-Sham top commander)
Wa’el Diyab (WIA)[26]
(Ajnad al-Sham commander)
Abu Leith al-Tunisi †[61]
(Ansar al-Islam commander)
Units involved

Syrian Armed Forces

IRGC

Hezbollah units

  • Radwan Forces[65]
  • Syrian Hezbollah groups
    • Imam Mahdi Brigade[66]
    • National Ideological Resistance[43]
    • Imam Hujja Regiment[43]

Fatah Halab

Ahrar al-Sham

al-Nusra Front / Jabhat Fateh al-Sham

Strength

Unknown number of soldiers, 100+ tanks, 400+ BMPs[30]

  • 400 Military Security Shield Forces fighters[19]
c. 2,000 al-Nujaba fighters[18]
Russia 120+ Naval Infantry advisors, several BMPs[20][73]

8,000–10,000+ fighters[30][74]

  • 2,500+ Jabhat Fateh fighters[30]
Casualties and losses
688 killed (per The Inside Source; since 31 July)[75][76]
625 killed (per SOHR; 31 July–10 Sep.)[77]		 1,051 killed (per The Inside Source; since 31 July)[75][76][78]
948 killed (per SOHR; 31 July–10 Sep.)[77]
718 civilians killed (31 July–10 Sep.)[77]
Civil uprising
in Syria (March–August 2011)
Start of insurgency (September 2011 – April 2012)
Cease-fire and civil war (May 2012 – December 2013)
Rise of the Islamists (January–September 2014)
United States-led intervention (September 2014 – September 2015)
Russian intervention (September 2015 – March 2016)
Aleppo escalation and Turkish intervention (March 2016–present)

The 2016 Aleppo campaign[79] started with a military operation launched on the northern outskirts of Aleppo in late June 2016, by the Syrian Army. The aim of the offensive was to cut the last rebel supply line into Aleppo city.[80][81]

By late July, the military had managed to sever the last rebel supply line coming from the north and completely surround Aleppo. However, within days, the rebels launched a large-scale counter-attack south of Aleppo in an attempt to both open a new supply line into rebel-held parts of the city and cut-off the government-held side. The whole campaign, including both the Army's offensive and subsequent rebel counter-offensive, was seen by both sides as possibly deciding the fate of the entire war.[59][82][83][84][85][86]

The battle was also notable for the large loss of top rebel field commanders, with about three dozen being killed.[26][49][50][52][58][59][87][88][89]

By early September, government troops had cemented their siege of the rebel part of the city.[12]

The campaign

Army advances, rebel-held Aleppo surrounded

The offensive began on 25 June, with heavy Russian air-strikes[16] and ground bombardment.[80] On 26 June, the military made advances into the Mallah Farms,[90] and by 28 June, they had captured half of the farmlands,[91] including the Al-Asamat and Arab Salum areas.[92] The advances brought the Castello Road within firing range of the military's artillery.[93]

After midnight on 7 July, amid heavy airstrikes, pro-government forces captured the southern part of Mallah and came within one kilometer of the Castello Road.[94] They captured a mosque complex and a hill which overlook the Castello Road,[95][96] thus enabling them to bring the road under artillery fire-control.[97] This effectively cut off the only supply route to the rebel-held part of Aleppo.[94]

Several days later, the Army advanced in the al-Layramoun[98][99] al-Khalidiyah[100] and Bani Zeid districts.[101][102] During this time, government troops captured the Sadkop Gas Factory.[103][104]

By the evening of 13 July, the military secured the whole al-Khalidiyah district and most of the al-Layramoun industrial area, after capturing the last several rebel-held buildings in al-Khalidiyah, as well as al-Layramoun’s gas factory, market and glass factory.[62]

On 17 July, the Army and Hezbollah reached the Castello Road, capturing parts of it and completely cutting it after taking control of Castello Hill. With this advance, the rebel-held part of Aleppo city was fully besieged[2][105][106] and the al-Layramoun roundabout came under artillery fire-control.[107] Meanwhile, the military made more advances in the Bani Zeid and al-Layramoun areas, capturing most of the factories.[108]

Between 23 and 25 July, the Army expanded its control in the al-Layramoun industrial area by capturing the Textile Factory[109] a dozen industrial buildings and two malls.[110] Late on 25 July, the Tiger Forces captured two sites in and near the Castillo Complex, threatening to cut off the rebels remaining at Bani Zeid and al-Layramoun.[111]

On 26 July, government forces captured all of the al-Layramoun District after heavy fighting for the last rebel stronghold there, the Bus Station. After also seizing the Al-Castillo Amusement Park and imposing fire control over Bani Zeid, the remaining rebel forces in Aleppo City were left almost completely besieged.[5][112][113]

On 27 July, rebel forces attacked the Kurdish-held areas of Aleppo, although their attack was repelled.[114] The Kurds then proceeded to advance into the nearby rebel-held Bani Zeid Youth Housing neighborhood[115][116] and captured the whole complex.[21] Later that day, the Army officially declared it had cut off all rebel supply routes into Aleppo.[117] On 28 July, the military captured the Bani Zeid district,[6][116][118] as well as the rebel-held parts of the Ashrafiyah district.[7] The rebels withdrew from Bani Zeid before the main Army assault so to avoid heavy losses.[4] The Army then continued to push its assault towards the Dahret Abdrubbah area.[119]

On 30 July, the Kurdish YPG captured the Shuqayyif Youth Housing area, next to the Castello Road.[120][121]

Rebel counter-offensive, both sides besieged

On 31 July, the Army of Conquest launched a counter-offensive both south and north of Aleppo in an attempt to lift the siege on the rebel-held areas of the city. Fierce fighting was reported at the Al-Castillo Highway,[23] while the rebels managed to capture the Al-Hikma school and two hills on the southern outskirts of Aleppo, which constituted an advanced Army defense line.[122] The wide-scale rebel counter-attack reportedly included 8,000–10,000 fighters, 95 tanks, hundreds of rocket launchers and a large number of suicide-bombers.[123][124] By evening, the rebels also took control of Al-‘Amariyah village and reached the nearby 1070 Al-Hamadaniyah Housing Project where fighting continued.[125] During the night, the 1070 Al-Hamadaniyah Housing Project was also taken by the rebels.[126][127]

The next day, the rebels once again advanced and took control of Mushrifah village (also known as Sharfa), that is situated on a hill that overlooks the Al-Assad Military Academy.[128][129]

Over the next several days, back-and-forth fighting took place for control of the 1070 Housing Project neighborhood,[130][131][132][133] Huwayz village,[124][134][135][136][137] Al-‘Amariyah and several hills.[59][84][138][139][140][141][142][143][144][145][146]

On 5 August, a rebel attack on the Military Academy started[147][148] and by the next day the rebels took control of more than half of the Military Academy.[149][150] Shortly after their advances at the Military Academy, rebels both inside and outside Aleppo advanced into the Ramouseh neighborhood, linked up and captured it. With this advance, the rebels managed to cut the government's supply line into the government-held part of west Aleppo[8][9][151] and announced the Army's siege of rebel-held east Aleppo had been broken.[152] However, the new rebel supply line was still under Army artillery fire and being hit by air-strikes,[8][9] making both sides essentially under siege.[8] Since the rebel offensive started, at least 130 civilians had been killed, most by rebel shelling of government-held districts. 500 fighters on both sides also died, mostly rebels.[153] At the end of the day, the rebels were in control of the entire Military Academy base and the Ramouseh district.[154]

Fighting continues, Army retakes territory

On 7 August, fighting was still continuing in the Ramouseh district, where it was confirmed the Army was still in control of parts of the area.[155] The government, backed by Russia, launched an intensive air-strike campaign, in which one of the military schools captured by the rebels was reportedly leveled. Meanwhile, the rebels were putting up a "massive" defense to protect the new corridor.[156] The next day, the Ramouseh district was confirmed to be completely under rebel control,[157] while the Army recaptured al-Sanobrat hill.[158]

On 11 August, the rebels attacked the government supply route to Aleppo between Khanasir and Ithriya, capturing Mahmyat Al-Ghazal.[159] However, the Army recaptured the village the following day.[160]

Between 11 and 17 August, the Army launched several counter-attacks, primarily against the 1070 Housing Project.[60][161][162] During the fighting on 11 August, 29 government and up to 20 rebel fighters were killed.[163] By 17 August, government forces recaptured about 70 percent of the district.[33][164]

On 17 August, after capturing most of the 1070 Al-Hamdaniyah Housing Project, government forces also stormed the Air Force Technical Base. The former government commander of the base Brig. Gen. Deeb Bazi was killed as he led the assault.[33][164] Back-and-forth fighting at the Academy continued into early September, when on 4 September, pro-government forces finally overwhelmed the rebel defenders and captured the whole complex.[76][165][166] Thus, government troops reestablished the siege of rebel-held areas of Aleppo.[12]

Also during this time, on 21 August, government forces captured Umm Qara hill that overlooks the Khan Touman-Ramouseh Road near Al-Qarassi,[167][168] as well as nearby SyriaTel hill.[168][169] Multiple rebel counter-attacks in an attempt to recapture Umm Qara hill were eventually repelled.[170]

On 5 September, rebel frontlines in southern Aleppo collapsed, with pro-government forces overrunning three villages, three hills, two factories, two storage facilities, an Air Defense Base and a quarry.[171][172][173]

Between 6 and 8 September, the Syrian Army captured the whole Ramouseh district,[174][175][176][177][178] reopening the Ramouseh Road to supply government-held western Aleppo by 9 September.[179]

On 10–11 September, the Syrian Army and its allies continued to advance in the 1070 Al-Hamdaniyah Housing Project and the Al-‘Amariyah District. They also continued to target the Hikmah School.[180][181][182]

On 11 September, airstrikes interrupted Eid al-Adha celebrations in rebel-held areas of Aleppo and Idlib. US and Russian officials negotiated a ceasefire hours prior, which was to go into effect later the following day at sundown.[183]

Aftermath – Ceasefire and government assault on East Aleppo

After the implementation of the ceasefire in mid-September, the Syrian Army withdrew its forces from the Castello road to allow UN humanitarian aid into the eastern parts of the city. However, rebel groups outside the city did not allow humanitarian aid convoys into Aleppo.[184] Later, as Russian Marines and Syrian Red Crescent personnel controlling Castello road came under fire by rebel groups, the SAA redeployed its soldiers once again.[185]

On 16 September, the Russian Air Force carried out numerous airstrikes around Aleppo for the first time since the ceasefire had been reached four days earlier.[186] On 19 September, an aid convoy from the United Nations and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent consisting of more than 18 trucks was reportedly hit by air-to-surface missiles as they headed for eastern Aleppo from the town of Urum al-Kubra, killing 12 people and severely injuring several more.[187] At the same time, Russia and Syria restarted heavy bombing raids on rebels in the city.[188]

Early on 21 September, the Syrian Army seized most of Hikma Hill, thus being on the verge of recapturing Al-Hikma school and the 1070 Housing Project.[189][190] However, later in the day, the rebels retook the positions they lost on the hill. Still, the Army managed to capture areas of the Ramouseh district that had been rebel-held since late 2012.[191] Meanwhile, SOHR claimed that 3,000 Russian soldiers had arrived at Aleppo to support new government offensives in the area.[192]

On 22 September, the Syrian Army launched a new offensive into the rebel-held eastern neighborhoods.[193] Government forces also made further progress in southern Aleppo, capturing a few sites.[194][195]

See also

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