Eastern Syria insurgency

Eastern Syria insurgency
Part of the Rojava conflict, the Syrian civil war and the Syrian conflict

Map of areas held by the SDF (in yellow)
Date11 October 2017 – present
(8 years, 5 months and 4 days)
Location
Portions of eastern Syria
Status Ongoing
Belligerents
Anti-SDF Arab tribes

Hurras al-Din (al-Qaeda loyalists, until 2025)

Commanders and leaders
Thabit Sobhi Fahd Al-Ahmad †
(ISIL oil minister)
Mohammed Remedan Eyd al-Talah (POW)
(ISIL chief financial officer)		 Mazloum Abdi
(SDF commander-in-chief)
Eric T. Hill
(SOJTF commander)
Units involved
Strength
Unknown, probably thousands 60,000–75,000 (2017 estimate)
c. 2,000 (2018 estimate)
Casualties and losses
225 killed, 107 captured (2018–2025)
1 killed, 3 injured		 1,404 killed (vs IS; Aug. 2018 – 2025)
6 captured
2 injured
7 killed
2 injured
10 killed
3 killed
3 injured
727 civilians killed (Aug. 2018 - 2025)

The Eastern Syria insurgency is an armed insurgency being waged by remnants of the Islamic State and both pro and anti-Ba'athist Syria Arab nationalist insurgents, against the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), its military (the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)), and their allies in the US-led Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF–OIR) coalition.


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