| 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 | ||||||||||
 Russia (From 2015) Syrian Social Nationalist Party Ba'ath Brigades Hezbollah Shiite Militias |
Houla Operations Room (From 2015)
 Ansar al-Khilafah (From 2013)[4] Jaysh al-Thuwar (2015)[5][6] Hazzm Movement (2014) |
 Ahlul Sunnah wal Jama’a[10] | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||||
 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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Badr battalion Sadr battalion | |||||||||
| Strength | ||||||||||
| Unknown | 3000 (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,[20] the rebel-held pocket in northern Homs was fully taken by the Syrian government in 2018 after clearing opposition held areas around the capital.[21]
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