Siege of Daraa

Siege of Daraa
	Part of the Civil uprising phase of the Syrian Civil War
Date	25 April – 5 May 2011; (1 week and 3 days)
Location	Daraa, Syria
Result	Protests suppressed
Belligerents
Syrian opposition Opposition protesters; Defecting soldiers;	Syrian Arab Republic Syrian Army;
Commanders and leaders
Unknown	Gen. Maher al-Assad ; Gen. Mohsin Makhlouf ; Gen. Ahmed Yousef Jarad ; Gen. Ramadan Ramadan; Col. Suheil al-Hassan
Strength
Unknown	4th Division (42nd brigade) ; 5th Division (12th, 15th, 112th, 132nd brig, 175th reg) ; Special forces (35th, 41st regiment)
Casualties and losses
50–220 protesters killed and 600–1,000 arrested, 81 defected soldiers killed	25 killed, 177 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.

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