Rif Dimashq Governorate campaign

Offensives

• Rif Dimashq clashes : Damascus centre under government control, protests largely suppressed in the city.
• Battle of Damascus : rebels first infiltration of Damascus from the surrounding countryside.
• Rif Dimashq offensive : Syrian Army seizes more than half a dozen rebel-held towns north, west and south of Damascus, rebels retain control of the Ghouta area, east of Damascus.
• Rif Dimashq offensive : Free Syrian Army takes control of Darayya, Zamalka, Harasta and Arbin, offensive stalls in early January 2013, due to continuing air-strikes. Army launches a major offensive on rebel-held Darayya in mid-January.
• Siege of Darayya and Muadamiyat : rebels surrender Darayya as well as Mudamiyat al-Sham to the government and leave both towns.
• Damascus offensive : rebel operations around Damascus city ring.
• Siege of Eastern Ghouta : The Syrian Army captures Eastern Ghouta.
• Rif Dimashq offensive : Syrian Army captures the towns of Jdaidet al-Fadl, Jdeidit Artouz, Otaiba, Qaysa, Jarba, Harran Al-Awamid and Abadeh cutting the main rebel supply line into Damascus. Syrian Army surrounds the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area, surrounds and partially advances into the rebel-held Qaboun, Barzeh and Jobar suburbs.
• Rif Dimashq offensive : Syrian Army captures the towns of Shaba’a, Sheikh Omar, al-Thiabiya, Husseiniya, Bweida, Hatetat al-Turkman, Al-Sabinah.
• Battle of Al-Malihah: Syrian Army captures Al-Maliha after a four-month battle.
• Rif Dimashq offensive : Syrian Army captures Heteta al-Jersh and Adra and recaptures al-Dukhaniyya and Kabbasa.
• Battle of Yarmouk Camp : the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant invades Yarmouk Camp, with aid from al-Nusra Front, and manages to capture 95% of the camp on 7 April, before Syrian rebel groups and the Syrian Army launch a counterattack on 12 April to drive ISIL and al-Nusra Front out of the area.
• Rif Dimashq offensive : limited rebel gains.
• Al-Dumayr offensive : Syrian Army repels ISIL's offensive.
• East Ghouta inter-rebel conflict : rebel infighting between Jaish al-Fustat and Jaysh al-Islam.
• Rif Dimashq offensive : Army territorial gains in rebel strongholds of Deir al-Asafir and Zabdin.
• Rif Dimashq offensive : Large Army gains in the northeastern section of Eastern Ghouta.
• Eastern Qalamoun offensive : Indecisive.
• Khan al-Shih offensive : Army captures the Khan al-Shih rebel pocket of Western Ghouta.
• Wadi Barada offensive : Army captures Wadi Barada after a three-year siege.
• Qaboun offensive : Army captures the Qaboun, Barzeh and Tishrin neighborhoods of Damascus.
• East Ghouta inter-rebel conflict : Indecisive.
• Syrian Desert campaign : Syrian Army and allies victory.
• 2017 Jobar offensive: Syrian Army offensive stalled; Army advance on Jobar repelled by rebels.
• Beit Jinn offensive: Syrian forces regain control of Beit Jinn.
• Battle of Harasta : Indecisive.
• Southern Damascus offensive : ISIS seize 90% of Yarmouk.
• Rif Dimashq offensive : decisive Syrian Army and allies Victory. Syrian government takes control over the Eastern Ghouta.
• 2nd Southern Damascus offensive : ISIL victory.
• Eastern Qalamoun offensive : Syrian Army and allies victory.
• 3rd Southern Damascus offensive : Syrian Army and allies victory. Syrian government regains control over the whole Rif Dimashq and Damascus Governorates.

Maps 2012–2018