Northern Aleppo offensive (February–July 2014)

Northern Aleppo offensive (February–July 2014)
	Part of the inter-rebel conflict during the Syrian Civil War
	; Map showing the ISIS-held Azaz pocket in early February 2014
Date	13 February – 2 July 2014 ; (4 months, 2 weeks and 5 days)
Location	Northern Aleppo Governorate, Syria
Result	Partial rebel victory FSA-led rebels recapture Azaz, Menagh Military Airbase, Deir Jamal, and a number of other towns and villages from ISIL; ISIL recapture several villages and retain the cities of al-Bab and Manbij and towns of Akhtarin, al-Rai and Jarabulus;
Belligerents
Free Syrian Army Northern Storm Brigade; Conquest Brigade; Free Syria Operations Room; Islamic Front; Al-Nusra Front	Islamic State
Commanders and leaders
Alaa Ajabu †; (Kurdish Front top commander); Abu Walid; (al-Tawhid Brigade northern commander); Abu Ahmad Bakri; (Glories of the Levant Brigade commander)	Abu Omar al-Shishani
Units involved
Free Syria Operations Room Kurdish Front Brigade; Dawn of Freedom Brigades; Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror Brigade; Al-Tawhid Brigade; Northern Sun Battalion; Brigades and Battalions of Manbij; Glories of the Levant Brigade; Al-Bab Islamic Battalions; Free Zaydia Battalions;	Military of ISIL Wilayat Halab;

The Northern Aleppo offensive (February–July 2014) was a military offensive launched by armed Syrian opposition forces led by the Free Syrian Army against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the northern Aleppo Governorate. The offensive resulted in ISIL's withdrawal from the city of Azaz, Menagh Military Airbase, and a number of towns and villages in the area.

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