Eastern Syria insurgency

Eastern Syria insurgency
Part of the Rojava conflict and the Syrian civil war

Map of areas held by the SDF (in green)
Date11 October 2017 – present
(7 years, 8 months, 1 week and 2 days)
Location
Portions of eastern Syria
Status Ongoing
Belligerents

Supported by:
Syrian Government 
 Iran (alleged, until 6 December 2024) 

Anti-SDF Arab tribes

Hurras al-Din (al-Qaeda loyalists, until 2025)
Commanders and leaders
Thabit Sobhi Fahd Al-Ahmad †
(ISIL oil minister)
Mohammed Remedan Eyd al-Talah (POW)
(ISIL chief financial officer)		 Mazloum Abdi
(SDF commander-in-chief)
Eric T. Hill
(SOJTF commander)
Units involved
Strength
Unknown, probably thousands 60,000–75,000 (2017 estimate)
c. 2,000 (2018 estimate)
Casualties and losses
222 killed, 107 captured (2018–2025)

1,368 killed (vs IS; Aug. 2018 – 2025)

5 killed (vs TAF; 2018)
10 killed
723 civilians killed (Aug. 2018 - 2025)

The Eastern Syria insurgency is an armed insurgency being waged by remnants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and both pro and anti-Syrian government Arab nationalist insurgents, against the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), its military (the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)), and their allies in the US-led Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF–OIR) coalition.

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