Daraa Governorate campaign

{{short description|Syrian Army offensive}}

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| partof = Syrian Civil War

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| date = 14 November 2011 – 7 December 2024
({{Age in months, weeks and days|month1=11|day1=14|year1=2011|month2=12|day2=7|year2=2024}}){{cite web|url=https://www.syriahr.com/en/222402/|title=New terms of Daraa agreement applied {{!}} Russian military police escort regime forces to Daraa al-Balad neighbourhoods to start inspection and establish military posts|work=Syrian Observatory for Human Rights|date=8 September 2021}}

| place = Daraa Governorate, Syria

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| territory = Rebels fully capture both the Daraa Governorate and Quneitra region.{{cite web|url=https://www.syriahr.com/en/350834/|title=Military escalation {{!}} Six civilians killed by regime shelling on Al-Sanmin in Daraa before withdrawing completely|work=SOHR|date= 7 December 2024}}{{cite news |title=For the first time since Israel occupied the Syrian Golan Heights, regime forces withdraw from their positions on the border with the Golan Heights and most of the southern regions, and Russia withdraws from its points |url=https://www.syriahr.com/%d9%84%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%88%d9%84%d9%89-%d9%85%d9%86%d8%b0-%d8%a7%d8%ad%d8%aa%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%a5%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%a6%d9%8a%d9%84-%d9%84%d9%84%d8%ac%d9%88%d9%84/739669/ |access-date=7 December 2024 |publisher=SOHR |date=7 December 2024 |language=Arabic}}

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| status = Syrian opposition victory

  • Pro-government forces withdraw to Damascus Governorate
  • Southern rebels from Daraa, Suwayda and Quneitra form a military alliance called the Southern Operations Room{{Cite web |last=Parry |first=Hannah |date=6 December 2024 |title=Syria Civil War Live Updates: Syrian media denies Damascus under attack |url=https://www.newsweek.com/syria-civil-war-live-updates-syrian-state-media-denies-damascus-under-attack-rebels-advance-1996713 |access-date=6 December 2024 |website=Newsweek |language=en}}

| combatant1 = {{flagicon|Syria|1980}} Syrian Arab Republic
{{flag|Iran}}
{{flag|Russia}}
{{flagicon|Palestine}} Palestine Liberation Army
{{flagicon image|InfoboxHez.PNG}} Hezbollah
{{flagicon image|Flag of Iraq.svg}} LAAG

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| combatant2 = {{flagicon|Syrian Opposition}} Free Syrian Army
{{Flagicon image|}}Southern Operations Room (since 2024)
{{flagicon image|InfoboxHTS.svg}} Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (since 2017)
{{flagicon image|Flag of the Al-Nusra Front.svg}} Al-Nusra Front (until 2017)
{{flagicon image|Flag of Ahrar ash-Sham.svg}} Ahrar al-Sham
{{flagicon image|Logo of Jaysh al-Islam.jpg}} Jaysh al-Islam
Al-Bunyan al-Marsous Operations Room

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{{Campaignbox Daraa Campaign}}

The Daraa Governorate campaign was a military campaign in the Syrian Civil War for the control of the southern Syrian Daraa Governorate (province) between the Syrian Armed Forces and the Syrian opposition, which ended with the capture of the province by the Southern Operations Room.

Offensives

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|+ Resume of Battles/Offensives from
Rif Dimashq Governorate Campaign

Battle

!Timespan

!Government

!Opposition

!Civilians

!Total

1st Daraa

|style="text-align: center;"| 14 November 2011 – 3 January 2013

|style="text-align: right;"|526 killed

|style="text-align: right;"|~950 killed

|style="text-align: right;"|470 killed

|style="text-align: right;"|~1,946 killed

2nd Daraa

|style="text-align: center;"|3 March – 10 April 2013

|style="text-align: right;"|10+ killed

|style="text-align: right;"|40+ killed

|style="text-align: right;"|29+ killed

|style="text-align: right;"|79+ killed

3rd Daraa

|style="text-align: center;"|3 – 6 October 2014

|style="text-align: right;"|53+ killed

|style="text-align: right;"|63+ killed

|style="text-align: right;"|26+ killed

|style="text-align: right;"|142+ killed

1st Al-Shaykh Maskin

|style="text-align: center;"|1 November 2014 – 15 December 2014

|style="text-align: right;"|58 killed

|style="text-align: right;"|200 killed

|style="text-align: right;"|Unknown

|style="text-align: right;"|258+ killed

4th Daraa

|style="text-align: center;"|24 – 31 January 2015

|style="text-align: right;"|17+ killed

|style="text-align: right;"|77–97 killed

|style="text-align: right;"|Unknown

|style="text-align: right;"|94-114+ killed

Daraa and As-Suwayda

|style="text-align: center;"|9 – 18 June 2015

|style="text-align: right;"|28–83 killed

|style="text-align: right;"|36–125 killed

|style="text-align: right;"|Unknown

|style="text-align: right;"|64-208+ killed

5th Daraa

|style="text-align: center;"|25 June – 10 July 2015

|style="text-align: right;"|28–34+ killed

|style="text-align: right;"|200+ killed

|style="text-align: right;"|11 killed

|style="text-align: right;"|239-245+ killed

2nd Al-Shaykh Maskin

|style="text-align: center;"|27 December 2015 – 25 January 2016

|style="text-align: right;"|98 killed

|style="text-align: right;"|210 killed

|style="text-align: right;"|Unknown

|style="text-align: right;"|308+ killed

6th Daraa

|style="text-align: center;"|21 March – 8 April 2016

|style="text-align: right;"|None (Did not participate in offensive)

|style="text-align: right;"|93 killed (Includes rebels and ISIS)

|style="text-align: right;"|25 killed

|style="text-align: right;"|118 killed

7th Daraa

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12 February – 8 March 2017
(First phase)

6–26 April 2017
(Second phase)

24 May – 6 June 2017
(Third phase)

|style="text-align: right;"|~300 killed

|style="text-align: right;"|278+ killed

|style="text-align: right;"|12+ killed

|style="text-align: right;"|590+ killed

8th Daraa

|style="text-align: center;"|20 – 27 February 2017

|style="text-align: right;"|None (Did not participate in offensive)

|style="text-align: right;"|210+ killed (Includes rebels and ISIS)

|style="text-align: right;"|9 killed

|style="text-align: right;"|219+ killed

9th Daraa

|style="text-align: center;"|7 – 23 June 2017

|style="text-align: right;"|27–40 killed

|style="text-align: right;"|19+ killed

|style="text-align: right;"|88+ killed

|style="text-align: right;"|134-147+ killed

Southern Syria offensive

|style="text-align: center;"|18 June – 31 July 2018

|style="text-align: right;"|309 killed

|style="text-align: right;"|515 killed

|style="text-align: right;"|236 killed

|style="text-align: right;"|1,060 killed

Total Casualties

|style="text-align: center;"|14 November 2011 – 31 July 2018

|style="text-align: right;"|1,454–1,528+ killed

|style="text-align: right;"|2,891–3,000+ killed
(+439 ISIL and unknown forces killed)

|style="text-align: right;"|906 killed+

|style="text-align: right;"|5,251-5,434 killed+

Maps 2012–2018

References