Battle of al-Qaryatayn (August 2015) | |||||||||
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Part of the Syrian Civil War | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Abu Hassan Al Khatami † |
Talal al-Barazi (Governor of the Homs Governorate)[1] | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
~27 militants killed[citation needed] | 37 soldiers killed | ||||||||
230 civilians abducted by ISIL |
The Battle of al-Qaryatayn (2015) was a military operation launched by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant to capture the town of al-Qaryatayn, in August 2015, during the Syrian Civil War.