Eastern Syria insurgency

Eastern Syria insurgency
	Part of the Rojava conflict and the Syrian civil war
	; Map of areas held by the SDF (in green)
Date	11 October 2017 – present; (6 years, 6 months, 1 week and 1 day)
Location	Portions of eastern Syria
Status	Ongoing
Belligerents
Islamic State Wilayat al-Sham; Syrian government loyalists Popular Resistance of the Eastern Region; Popular Resistance in Hasakah; Popular Resistance in Manbij; Supported by:; Syria; Iran (alleged) Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army Harakat al-Qiyam; Ahrar al-Sharqiya Gathering of the Eastern Martyrs; ; Revolutionaries in the Land of Deir ez-Zor Special Tasks Battalion; ; Pro-opposition tribes; Anti-SDF Arab tribes (2023) Hurras al-Din (al-Qaeda loyalists)	Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria Syrian Democratic Forces; Self-Defence Forces (HXP); Internal Security Forces (Asayish); Pro-SDF Arab tribes; CJTF–OIR United States; France; United Kingdom; Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK, claimed by Turkey, ISIL and the Popular Resistance)
Commanders and leaders
Thabit Sobhi Fahd Al-Ahmad †; (ISIL oil minister); Mohammed Remedan Eyd al-Talah (POW); (ISIL chief financial officer)	Mazloum Abdi; (SDF commander-in-chief); Eric T. Hill; (SOJTF commander)
Units involved
Military of ISIL Insurgent forces Army of the Security Forces; ; Sleeper cells; IRGC (alleged)	Syrian Democratic Forces YPG; YPJ; Anti-Terror Units; CJTF–OIR Special Operations Joint Task Force (SOJTF);
Strength
Unknown, probably thousands	60,000–75,000 (2017 estimate); c. 2,000 (2018 estimate)
Casualties and losses
ISIL: 204+ killed, 107 captured, 161 wounded (2018)	SDF: 542 killed (vs IS; Aug. 2018 - Nov. 2021); 5 killed (vs TAF; 2018); Coalition: 6 killed
	300 civilians killed (Aug. 2018 - Nov. 2021)

The Eastern Syria insurgency is an armed insurgency being waged by remnants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and both pro and anti-Syrian government Arab nationalist insurgents, against the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), its military (the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)), and their allies in the US-led Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF–OIR) coalition.

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