Siege of al-Fu'ah and Kafriya

Siege of al-Fu'ah and Kafriya
	Part of the Syrian Civil War
	; Syrian rebels bombard al-Fu'ah and Kafriya using rocket artillery.
Date	28 March 2015 – 19 July 2018; (3 years, 3 months and 3 weeks)
Location	Al-Fu'ah and Kafriya, Idlib District, Idlib Governorate, Syria
Result	Rebel victory Government forces and civilians reached an agreement to evacuate from Fu'ah and Kafriya on 17 July 2018;
Belligerents
Tahrir al-Sham (2017–18); Army of Conquest (2015–17) al-Nusra Front; Jaysh al-Sunna; Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria; Ajnad al-Sham; Liwa al-Haqq; Sham Legion (left the Army of Conquest in July 2016); Jund al-Aqsa; Ahrar ash-Sham (Syrian Liberation Front since February 2018); Free Syrian Army Tajamu Saraya Darayya (2018); 101st Infantry Division (2015);	Syria; Iran; Allied militias:; Hezbollah; Quwat al-Ridha; Kata'ib Hezbollah
Commanders and leaders
Sheikh Abu al-Hassan al-Tunisi †; (al-Nusra and al-Qaeda commander); (Katibat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad' leader)	Jamil Hussein Faqih †; (Hezbollah operations leader in al-Fu'ah and Kafriya)
Units involved
al-Nusra Front/Tahrir al-Sham Imam Bukhari Jamaat; Katibat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad; Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar;	Syrian Armed Forces National Defense Force; Popular Committees; Hezbollah-affiliated local militias Saryat al-Shaheed Abu Yasir (since 2015); Saryat al-'Ishq; al-Wilaya Scouts Imam Mahdi Scouts; Fatima al-Zahara' Regiment; ; Iranian Armed Forces Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; Iranian Air Force;
Strength
3,000–4,000 (2015; per gov.)	4,000 (2015)
Casualties and losses
650+ killed (gov. claim); 74–100+ killed (Sep. 2015 assault)	40+ killed (Sep. 2015 assault)
	7 civilians killed (Sep. 2015 assault); 90+ civilians and government soldiers killed or wounded (March–Dec. 2016)

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The siege of al-Fu'ah and Kefriya was a siege of the towns of al-Fu'ah and Kafriya in the Idlib Governorate, towns with majority Shia populations and controlled by the Syrian government during the Syrian civil war. The siege began with a Sunni Islamist rebel assault on the capital of the province in March 2015, resulting in the capture of Idlib. On 18 July 2018, the besieged government forces reached an agreement with Tahrir al-Sham-led rebels to evacuate them and civilians from the two towns.

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