Topic summary
2024 Syrian opposition offensives
Syrian Salvation Government- Syrian Interim Government
Jaysh al-Izza- Suqour al-Sham Brigades
Ansar al-Tawhid
Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria
Imam Bukhari Jamaat
Ajnad al-Kavkaz
Jama'at Ansar al-Islam- Southern Operations Room
- Decisive Battle Operations Room
- Burkan al-Furat
- Al-Busraya Revolutionaries
- Syrian Free Army
Turkey (denied by Turkey)Ukraine (denied by Ukraine)
Mazloum Abdi- Military Operations Command
Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham- Red Bands
- Thermal Brigades
Liwa al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar
Katibat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad
Mujahidin Ghuroba Division
National Front for Liberation
Sham Legion
Ahrar al-Sham
Jaysh al-Ahrar- Jaysh al-Nasr
- Damascus Gathering
- Central Division
- 60th Infantry Division
- Jaysh al-Izza
- Suqour al-Sham Brigades
- Ansar al-Tawhid
- Syrian National Army
- Southern Operations Room
- Decisive Battle Operations Room
Al-Jabal Brigade- Men of Dignity
- Sheikh al-Karama Forces
- Faz‘at Shabab al-Jabal
- Saraya al-Jabal
- Tajammu‘ Abna’ al-Jabal
- Conquest of Damascus Military Operations Room
- 15,000 (est. 2022)
- 80,000 (est. 2025)
170,000 (2023)
50,000 (2023)
At least 300 (2024)
100,000 (2021)- 311 killed
- 60 killed
- c. 1,000 killed (Assad government claim)
25 pro-Iranian militiamen killed15 IRGC killed
1+ killed
3 killed and several captured370,000 civilians displaced
On 27 November 2024, a coalition of Syrian revolutionary factions called the Military Operations Command, led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and supported by allied Turkish-backed groups in the Syrian National Army (SNA), launched an offensive against the Ba'athist regime's armed forces in Idlib, Aleppo and Hama Governorates in Syria. It initially began as a localised offensive targeting towns in the Idlib and Aleppo countryside, later evolving into a nationwide campaign that culminated in the regime's collapse.
On 29 November 2024, HTS entered Aleppo and captured most of the city, amid the collapse of pro-government forces. The next day, opposition forces made rapid advances, capturing dozens of towns and villages as pro-government forces disintegrated, and advanced toward Hama in central Syria, subsequently capturing it on 5 December. By 6 December, the SDF captured Deir ez-Zor in an offensive east of the Euphrates, while the newly formed Southern Operations Room and Al-Jabal Brigade captured Daraa and Suwayda in an offensive in the south. The HTS advanced further south toward Homs. The American-backed Syrian Free Army (SFA) launched the Palmyra offensive in the south of the country.
On 7 December 2024, Southern Operations Room forces entered the Rif Dimashq Governorate from the south, and came within 10 kilometers of the capital Damascus. Later, opposition forces were reported to have entered the suburbs of the capital. SFA forces moved towards the capital from the south east. By 8 December, they had captured Homs, which effectively cut Assad's forces from Syria's coast. The same day, rebels also captured Damascus, toppling Bashar al-Assad's government and ending the Assad family's 53-year-long rule over the country.