As-Suwayda offensive (June 2018)

As-Suwayda offensive (June 2018)
	Part of the Syrian Civil War
	; Map the Suwayda Governorate
Date	7–22 June 2018; (2 weeks and 1 day)
Location	Suwayda and Rif Dimashq Governorates, Syria
Status	Indecisive Syrian Army captures a number of towns, villages and many hills; ISIL retains control of a pocket of territory;
Belligerents
Syria Syrian Armed Forces; Hezbollah; SSNP; Mountain Brigade	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Commanders and leaders
Brig. Gen. Sharaf Mazen Ahmed Barakat †	Unknown
Units involved
Syrian Armed Forces Syrian Army Republican Guard; ; Syrian Air Force; National Defense Force; Eagles of the Whirlwind; Mountain Brigade Rocks of Urman Battalion;	Military of ISIL
Casualties and losses
40 killed	31 killed

The As-Suwayda offensive (June 2018) began on 7 June in the rural parts of the Suwayda Governorate in southeastern Syria, after an evacuation deal was made between ISIL and the Syrian government concluding an anti-ISIL offensive in southern Damascus.

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