2015 Southern Syria offensive

Part of the Syrian Civil War

Syrian Government control

Opposition control

Contested

Date

7 February – 13 March 2015
(1 month and 6 days)

Location

Daraa Governorate, Rif Dimashq Governorate and Quneitra Governorate, Syria

Result

Syrian Army/Hezbollah/IRGC victory during phase one; Stalemate during phase two

Government forces capture seven towns and villages and eight hills

Belligerents

Syrian Revolutionary Command Council

Islamic Muthanna Movement

al-Nusra Front

Jamaat Bayt al-Maqdis al-Islamiya

Syrian Arab Republic

Hezbollah

Iranian IRGC

Liwa Fatemiyoun
Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada
Jaysh al-Wafaa

Commanders and leaders

Gen. Bashar al-Zoubi
(Southern Front leader)

Maj. Abu Osama al-Jolani

Col. Saber Safar †
(leader of the First Army)

Mukhtar Abu Omar †
(top military leader of al-Nusra Front in Southern Syria)

Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani

Mustafa Badr Al Din

Maj. Gen. Suheil Salman Hassan
(5th Mechanized Division)

Brig. Gen. Omar Abrash
(7th Mechanized Division)

Brig. Gen. Mahmoud Mustafa †

Col. Abbas Abdollahi †

Alireza Tavassoli †
(Liwa Fatemiyoun leader)

Units involved

Southern Front

First Army

Islamic Front

Ahrar ash-Sham

5th Mechanized Division

7th Infantry Division

9th Armored Division

10th Armored Division

Strength

2,500

5,000

300 Hezbollah

Casualties and losses

294 killed (Syrian Army claim)
300 killed and wounded (rebel claim)

63 killed (Syrian Army claim)
43 killed, 10–12 executed, 40 captured (SOHR claim)
400 killed (rebel claim)