Eastern Syria campaign (September–December 2017)
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The Eastern Syria campaign[20] of September–December 2017 was a large-scale military operation of the Syrian Army (SAA) and its allies against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the Syrian Civil War. Its goal was to clear the city of Deir ez-Zor of any remaining ISIL forces,[21] capture ISIL's de facto capital of Mayadin,[22][23] as well as seize the border town of Abu Kamal, which became one of ISIL's final urban strongholds by the latter stages of the campaign.
Eastern Syria campaign (September–December 2017) | |||||||
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Part of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate campaign and the Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war | |||||||
SAA and ISF advances along the border | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Russia Iran Allied militias: Hezbollah[1][2] PMF militias[1][3][4][5] Liwa Fatemiyoun[1][2] | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Maj. Gen. Suheil al-Hassan[6] Maj. Gen. Issam Zahreddine †[7] Brig. Gen. Ghassan Iskandar Tarraf[7] (Republican Guard) Lt. Gen. Valery Asapov †[8] (Syrian 5th Corps commander)[9] Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani[6] | Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
Hezbollah
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Strength | |||||||
Several thousand | 5,000–10,000+[14][15][16] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
601+ killed[17] | 985+ killed[18] | ||||||
987 civilians killed[19] |
The campaign was concurrent with the 2017 Western Iraq campaign, the Raqqa campaign conducted by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against ISIL's former capital city of Raqqa, as well as with the SDF's offensive in Deir ez-Zor province along the eastern banks of the Euphrates River.