Eastern Syria campaign (September–December 2017)

Eastern Syria campaign (September–December 2017)
	Part of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate campaign and the Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war
	; SAA and ISF advances along the border
Date	14 September – 17 December 2017; (3 months and 3 days)
Location	Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria
Result	Decisive Syrian Army and allies victory ISIL militants maintain presence in the desert;
Belligerents
Syrian Arab Republic Syrian Armed Forces; Russia; Iran; Allied militias:; Hezbollah; PMF militias; Liwa Fatemiyoun	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Commanders and leaders
Maj. Gen. Suheil al-Hassan; Maj. Gen. Issam Zahreddine †; Brig. Gen. Ghassan Iskandar Tarraf; (Republican Guard); Lt. Gen. Valery Asapov †; (Syrian 5th Corps commander); Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani	Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Units involved
Syria Syrian Army 1st Armoured Division; Republican Guard; Tiger Forces; 5th Corps; ; National Defence Forces; Shaitat tribal forces; Palestinian Syrian militias Liwa al-Quds; Fatah al-Intifada; Galilee Forces; FPM; ; Russia Russian Aerospace Forces; Special Operations Forces advisors; Russian Navy; Iran IRGC; Hezbollah Lebanese Hezbollah; Syrian Hezbollah;	Military of ISIL Garrison of Deir ez-Zor Province; Garrison of Homs Province;
Strength
Several thousand	5,000–10,000+
Casualties and losses
601+ killed	985+ killed
	987 civilians killed

The Eastern Syria campaign of September–December 2017 was a large-scale military operation of the Syrian Army (SAA) and its allies against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the Syrian Civil War. Its goal was to clear the city of Deir ez-Zor of any remaining ISIL forces, capture ISIL's de facto capital of Mayadin, as well as seize the border town of Abu Kamal, which became one of ISIL's final urban strongholds by the latter stages of the campaign.

The campaign was concurrent with the 2017 Western Iraq campaign, the Raqqa campaign conducted by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against ISIL's former capital city of Raqqa, as well as with the SDF's offensive in Deir ez-Zor province along the eastern banks of the Euphrates River.

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