Battle of Anadan

Battle of Anadan; معركة عندان
	Part of the Battle of Aleppo and the 2012–13 escalation of the Syrian Civil War
	; Rebel fighters with a captured Syrian Army T-55 at the Anadan checkpoint during the battle
Date	29–30 July 2012
Location	Anadan, Aleppo Governorate
Result	Rebel victory Rebels gain control of Anadan checkpoint;
Belligerents
Free Syrian Army	Syrian Arab Republic Syrian Armed Forces;
Commanders and leaders
Gen. Abdel Nasser Firzat; 1st Lt. Rifaat Khalil; (Muthanna ibn Haritha Battalion)	Unknown
Units involved
Conquest Brigade Muthanna ibn Haritha Battalion; Al-Tawhid Brigade Free North Battalion;	Syrian Army Infantry Border Guard Brigade 111th Regiment; ;
Strength
150 fighters; 1 BMP-1	130+ soldiers; 12 tanks; 1 helicopter
Casualties and losses
4 killed	6 killed,; 25 captured,; 1–2 main battle tanks destroyed and; 8 captured; 5 APCs captured

The Battle of Anadan (Arabic: معركة عندان) was a ten-hour-long armed confrontation between the rebels of the Free Syrian Army and soldiers of the Syrian Army that occurred when FSA forces attempted to overrun a large army checkpoint in the Anadan area. At the end of the battle, FSA fighters successfully seized the checkpoint.

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