Siege of Daraa

Siege of Daraa
	Part of the Syrian revolution and the Syrian civil war
Date	25 April – 5 May 2011; (1 week and 3 days)
Location	Daraa, Syria
Result	Syrian government victory Anti-government protests suppressed in the city;
Belligerents
Syrian Opposition	Syrian Government
Commanders and leaders
Unknown	Gen. Maher al-Assad ; Gen. Mohsin Makhlouf ; Gen. Ahmed Yousef Jarad ; Gen. Ramadan Ramadan; Col. Suheil al-Hassan
Units involved
Syrian Opposition Opposition protesters; Defecting soldiers; ;	Syrian Armed Forces Syrian Army 4th Division 42nd brigade; ; 5th Division 12th brigade; 15th brigade; 112th brigade; 132nd brigade 175th army regiment; ; ; 15th Division 35th regiment; 41st regiment; ; ; ;
Casualties and losses
50–220 protesters killed; 600–1,000 protesters arrested; 81 defected soldiers killed	25 soldiers killed; 177 soldiers wounded

The siege of Daraa occurred within the context of the 2011 Arab Spring protests in Syria, in which Daraa was the center of unrest. On 25 April 2011, the Syrian Army began a ten-day siege of the city, an operation that helped escalate the uprising into an armed rebellion and subsequent civil war.

The Syrian Army's siege involved tanks, helicopters, and up to 6,000 troops. More than 1,000 people were arrested and more than 244 people were killed, many of them children.