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Southwestern Daraa offensive (February 2017)
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The Southwestern Daraa offensive (February 2017) was launched by an ISIL affiliate, the Khalid ibn al-Walid Army, in the southwest of Syria near the Golan Heights and on the border with Israel and Jordan.
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Southwestern Daraa offensive (February 2017) | |||||||
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Part of the Daraa Governorate campaign and the Inter-rebel conflict of the Syrian Civil War | |||||||
![]() A Free Syrian Army T-55 during the battles against ISIL west of Daraa. ![]() Map of the offensive within the wider context of South-western Syria. The simultaneously rebel offensive in Daraa city is marked with a hatched box. | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
1,100–1,500+[6][7] | Several hundred[8] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
36 killed[9] | 174 killed, dozens missing[10] | ||||||
9 civilians killed[9] |
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