↑ "Герои войны: потери Вооруженных сил РФ в ходе сирийской операции" [Heroes of war: losses of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the Syrian operation]. TASS. 4 January 2018. According to official publications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and representatives of Russian regional authorities, during the military operation in Syria, which began September 30, 2015, 43 Russian servicemen were killed as a result of the fighting.
↑ 8,000 killed in fighting (29 June 2014–28 June 2015), 417 killed in Palmyra offensive (March 2016), 47 killed in fighting with rebels (27–29 May 2016), 1,026 killed in Manbij offensive, 283 killed in Palmyra offensive (2017), 1,291 killed in Battle of Raqqa (2017), 1,186 killed in Central Syria campaign (July 2017–present), 538 executed (29 June 2014–23 September 2017), 7,176 killed in U.S. air-strikes (22 September 2014–23 September 2017), 4,258 killed in Russian air-strikes (30 September 2015–01 August 2017), total of 24,232+ reported killed
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↑ Blanford, Nicholas (21 August 2015). "Can Syria's Assad withstand latest battlefield setbacks? (+video)". Christian Science Monitor. สืบค้นเมื่อ 22 April 2015. The regime's recent setbacks in Idlib and the south are due in part to Assad's regional enemies – including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, and Jordan – agreeing on the need to unite rebel factions to oust Assad, according to analysts and regional diplomats.
↑ Gibbons-Neff, Thomas (15 December 2014). "Al-Qaeda faction in Syria claims to have U.S.-supplied anti-tank weapon". The Washington Post. สืบค้นเมื่อ 3 June 2015. The fielding of a TOW system would not necessarily provide al-Nusra with a capability it didn't already have. Similar weapons systems such as the Chinese HJ-8, French Milan and the Russian Spigot have all been seen in operation in Syria.
1 2 Lister, Charles (1 June 2015). "An Internal Struggle: Al Qaeda's Syrian Affiliate Is Grappling With Its Identity". Huffington Post. สืบค้นเมื่อ 1 June 2015. But not all saw it the same way, especially when it came to the fighting against the SRF and Harakat Hazm. One FSA commander exclaimed to this author that "Jamal Maarouf was a criminal and his group was unpopular," while another such leader told this author in February 2015 that "Hazm's destruction cannot come soon enough, they have done nothing but cause trouble in Aleppo." [...] Having spoken extensively with leading commanders from across the Syrian spectrum in recent weeks, it is clear this [Army of Conquest] cooperation has at least partly been motivated by a desire to ensure victories in Idlib do not become strategic gains for al Qaeda.
↑ Spencer, Richard (9 June 2015). "Assad's forces defeated on roads north and south". London: The Telegraph. สืบค้นเมื่อ 10 June 2015. Meanwhile, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, attacked west from Palmyra, reached the town of Hassia on the main road north from Damascus to Homs and the coast.
↑ "Islamic State Launches Two Attacks in Syria". Stratfor. 25 June 2015. สืบค้นเมื่อ 25 June 2015. The Islamic State launched two attacks in northern Syria on June 25 [...] The second attack was directed against the parts of al-Hasaka city still occupied by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al Assad and Kurds in the northern part of town. The mainstream media has largely focused on the Kobanî attack, but the al-Hasaka operation in the northeast is more important by far.
↑ Dulmers, Robert; Voeten, Teun (22 February 2015). "Dateline Damascus: fighting on all fronts". Open Security. In 12 days travelling some 1,200 km, except for special forces in Aleppo we hardly saw any anything of the regular army.
↑ Worth, Robert F. (2016). A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS. Pan Macmillan. p. 228. สืบค้นเมื่อ 31 July 2016. Assad was still in charge but he was utterly dependent on a diverse and toxic mix of volunteer warriors and `popular` militias, some of them manned by criminals. Not all of them were Syrian. A whole Shiite counter-jihad had formed – with fighters coming from Lebanon, Bahrain, even Afghanistan – under the supervision of Iran, Assad's patron.
↑ "Syrian regime launches counteroffensive on rebels". Yahoo! News. 7 April 2013. สืบค้นเมื่อ 7 May 2013. However in the north, the main rebel stronghold, government troops have been chipping away slowly over the past weeks at rebel gains around the city of Aleppo, the country's main commercial hub.
