Battle of al-Bab

Battle of al-Bab
	Part of the Operation Euphrates Shield and the Syrian Civil War
	; Map of the wider Turkish-led operations and the wider campaigns in northern Aleppo; Syrian Armed Forces and allied groups Syrian Democratic Forces Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant FSA groups and Turkish troops in Northern Syria
Date	6 November 2016 – 23 February 2017; (3 months, 2 weeks and 3 days)
Location	Al-Bab District, Aleppo Governorate, Syria
Result	Turkish and SNA victory; International coalition air intervention Turkish Armed Forces and Turkish Free Syrian Army victory; Turkish Armed Forces and Turkish Free Syrian Army/allied Syrian rebels capture the city of al-Bab, the towns of Bizaah and Qabasin and 37 villages from ISIL and 4 villages from SDF; The SDF captures 17 villages and towns, including Arima, from ISIL; The Syrian Army captures 25+ villages and towns including Tadef and several hills from ISIL; ;
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	444 civilians killed; 30,000+ civilians fled

The Battle of al-Bab was a battle for the city of al-Bab in the Aleppo Governorate that included a military offensive launched by Syrian rebel groups (including groups affiliated with the Free Syrian Army) and the Turkish Armed Forces north of al-Bab, a separate Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) offensive east and west of the city, and another Syrian Army offensive from the south of the city. The northern Turkish-led forces intended to capture al-Bab from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), as part of the Turkish military intervention in Syria. By the end of the battle, the Turkish-led forces had captured al-Bab, Qabasin, and Bizaah, while the Syrian Army captured Tadef and other areas further south, with the SDF making gains further to the east and the west.

The battle was concurrent with the other anti-ISIL operations, including the Raqqa campaign launched by the SDF, the Battle of Mosul launched by the Iraqi forces, and the Palmyra offensive, which was successfully conducted by ISIL against Syrian government forces. It was also claimed by Kurds to be the result of an "Aleppo for al-Bab" agreement between the Syrian government and Turkey, with Turkey withdrawing its support to rebels in Aleppo in exchange to laisser-faire up to al-Bab, thus cutting short the possibility of an East-West Kurdish corridor.

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