Southwestern Daraa offensive (February 2017)

Southwestern Daraa offensive (February 2017)
	Part of the Daraa Governorate campaign and the Inter-rebel conflict of the Syrian Civil War
	; A Free Syrian Army T-55 during the battles against ISIL west of Daraa.; ; ; Map of the offensive within the wider context of South-western Syria. The simultaneously rebel offensive in Daraa city is marked with a hatched box.
Date	20–27 February 2017; (1 week)
Location	Southwestern Daraa Governorate, Syria
Result	ISIL victory ISIL captured Tasil, four other towns and villages, two bases and two hills; Rebels recaptured two villages;
Belligerents
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Khalid ibn al-Walid Army;	Free Syrian Army Southern Front; Tahrir al-Sham
Strength
1,100–1,500+	Several hundred
Casualties and losses
36 killed	174 killed, dozens missing
	9 civilians killed

The Southwestern Daraa offensive (February 2017) was launched by an ISIL affiliate, the Khalid ibn al-Walid Army, in the southwest of Syria near the Golan Heights and on the border with Israel and Jordan.

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