2016 Southern Aleppo campaign

2016 Southern Aleppo campaign
	Part of the Battle of Aleppo and the Syrian Civil War
Date	1 April – 18 June 2016; (2 months, 2 weeks and 3 days)
Location	Aleppo Governorate, Syria
Result	Rebel victory The rebels capture Tel Al-Eis, Khan Tuman and seven other villages;
Belligerents
Army of Conquest Al-Nusra Front; Ahrar ash-Sham; Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria; Ajnad al-Sham; Sham Legion; Jund al-Aqsa; Caucasus Emirate; Free Syrian Army	Shia militias Liwa Fatemiyoun; Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba; Badr Brigades; Hezbollah Imam Mahdi Brigade; ; Baqir Brigade; Iran; Syrian Arab Republic; Russia; Liwa al-Quds; Saraya al-Areen
Commanders and leaders
Abu Abdollah Jabal †; (al-Nusra top commander); Umar al-Daghestani †; (al-Nusra commander); Seif al-Ansari †; (al-Nusra commander); Abu Alaa Ta'oum †; (Ahrar ash-Sham commander); Abu Aisha †; (Jund al-Aqsa top commander)	Brig. Gen. Javad Dourbin †; (IRGC senior commander); Brig. Gen. Shafi Shafii †; (IRGC Quds Force senior commander)
Units involved
Fatah Halab 13th Division; Knights of Justice Brigade;	Syrian Armed Forces Syrian Army 4th Mechanized Division 154th Brigade; ; ; National Defence Forces; Iranian Armed Forces IRGC Quds Force; 25th Karbala Division; ; Iranian Army 65th Airborne Special Forces Brigade; ; Russian Armed Forces Russian Air Force;
Casualties and losses
285 killed; 1 tank destroyed; 2 IFVs destroyed	255 killed; 1 tank captured

The 2016 Southern Aleppo campaign was a series of military operations that started on 1 April when the Islamist rebel coalition Army of Conquest, led by the al-Nusra Front, launched a surprise offensive south of Aleppo. The main objective of the operation was to recapture territory they had lost during the large-scale government offensive in late 2015.