Operation South Storm

Operation South Storm ( Arabic: Aasefat al-Janoub ) is the code name for the joint operation of militants of the armed Syrian opposition and Islamist groups against the government troops of Bashar al-Assad in Dar'a province , held in the summer of 2015 during the civil war in Syria . The southern front of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) took part in the operation, with the support of a number of Islamist terrorist groups from the so-called. The “southern sector” of the “ Army of the Conquest ”, including the al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch of Dzhebhat en Nusra .

Operation South Storm
Main conflict: Syrian civil war
date	June 25 - July 10, 2015
A place	Dar'a Province , Syria
Total	The victory of the government army
Opponents
Syrian Armed Forces Syrian Arab Army National Defense Forces Free Syrian Army South Front Army of Conquest Ahrar ash-sham Jabbat en nusra Jaish al-islam
Commanders
Mohammed Khaled al-Hannus Zahran Allush
Forces of the parties
unknown more than 5,000 rebels [1]
Losses
Government data: 28 - 34 dead, [2] 3 taken prisoner Opposition data: 70 killed 200 prisoners, [3] Government B. Assad data: 200 dead, 200 prisoners [4]

The attack on the positions of government troops (defending the city of Dar'a, as well as settlements adjacent to it) was launched by them on July 25 and lasted for two weeks. As a result of the fighting, the attack of militants was repelled by the forces of the government army.