Northern Aleppo offensive (February 2016)

Northern Aleppo offensive (February 2016)
	Part of the Battle of Aleppo and the Syrian Civil War
	; Syrian Army soldiers after breaking the siege of Nubl and Zahra
Date	1–16 February 2016; (2 weeks and 1 day)
Location	Northern Aleppo Governorate, Syria
Result	SDF, Syrian army and allies victory
Territorial; changes	The Syrian Army and its allies break the siege of Nubl and Al-Zahraa; The main rebel supply route from Turkey is cut; The Syrian Army and its allies capture Mayer and nine villages, reaching 25 km away from the Syrian–Turkish border; The Kurdish-led SDF captures Tell Rifaat, 13 villages, and the Menagh Military Airbase;
Belligerents
Syrian Arab Republic; Iran; Russia; Allied militias:; Kata'ib Hezbollah; Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba; Badr Corps; Liwa Fatemiyoun; Hezbollah; Liwa al-Quds Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria	Al-Nusra Front; Army of Aleppo Ahrar ash-Sham; Levant Front; Mujahideen Army; Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement; Free Syrian Army; Jaysh al-Islam; ; Sham Legion; Fastaqim Union; Turkey (mainly against SDF); Supported by:; Saudi Arabia; Qatar;
Commanders and leaders
Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani; (Head of Quds Force); Brig. Gen. Mohsen Ghajarian †; Lt. Gen. Ali Abdullah Ayyoub; Gen. Hafez Ahmed Al-Abood †; Col. Nawaf Hamad Al-Khatib †; Col. Gen. Aleksandr Dvornikov; Haydar Fariz † Abdo Ibrahim; (Afrin Canton defense minister); Sewsen Bîrhat (Aleppo YPJ commander); Wissi Hijazi ("Abu Uday Menagh"); (Army of Revolutionaries commander); Zakur al-Diri (POW); (former Mountain Hawks Brigade commander, defected to the Army of Revolutionaries)	Hashim al-Sheikh; (overall rebel Aleppo commander); Nimr al-Shukri †; (Ahrar ash-Sham Aleppo commander); Abu Ahmed al Abdullah †; (al-Nusra Front Tell Rifaat commander); Abu Mustapha al-Saleh; (Levant Front); Zekeriya Karsli; (Levant Front); Ismail Nadef (POW); (Conquest Brigade)
Units involved
Syrian Armed Forces Syrian Army 4th Mechanized Division 154th Brigade; ; Republican Guard; ; Local Defence Forces Baqir Brigade; ; National Defence Forces; Syrian Air Force; ; Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran IRGC IRGC Ground Forces; Quds Force; ; ; Russian Armed Forces Aerospace Forces; Wagner Group; ; Syrian Hezbollah units National Ideological Resistance; Imam al Hujja Regiment; ; Syrian Democratic Forces YPG; YPJ; Army of Revolutionaries; ;	Free Syrian Army 101st Infantry Division; 16th Division; 1st Regiment; Mountain Hawks Brigade; Sultan Murad Division; Conquest Brigade (also part of Ahrar ash-Sham); Al-Mu'tasim Brigade; Muntasir Billah Brigade; ; Turkish Land Forces;
Casualties and losses
SAA & allies:; 143 killed (48 Iraqis, 14 IRGC, 3 Hezbollah); SDF:; 18 killed; Total:; 161 killed	Fighting SAA & allies:; 309–335 killed; Fighting SDF:; 88 killed; Total:; 397-423 killed
	119–168 civilians killed; (one Lebanese journalist); 50,000 civilians displaced

The Northern Aleppo offensive (February 2016) refers to a military operation launched northwest of Aleppo in early February 2016 by the Syrian Arab Army and its allies. The offensive successfully broke the three-year Siege of Nubl and Al-Zahraa, effectively cutting off the main supply route of the Syrian rebels from Turkey.