Khan Tuman (operation) ( fa, عملیات خان طومان) is a war operation which was done in the town of

Khan Tuman Khan Tuman ( ar, خان طومان) is a village in northern Syria, administratively part of the Mount Simeon District of Aleppo Governorate, located southwest of Aleppo. Nearby localities include Urum al-Kubrah, Urum al-Sughrah, al-Shaykh Al ...

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, and was finally captured by the Syrian army on 29 January 2020. The operation was commenced in 2016 by the military forces of Syria,

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(beside Syrians) against rebels who intended to occupy the town.

Locality

Khan-Tuman is a village/town located near the highway of Aleppo-Damascus, that is considered a significant/strategic locality for two sides of the battle in Syria. At the first steps of the operation (Khan-Tuman), the southwestern of Reif (in Syria) was taken back in March 2016 by the

Axis of Resistance The term ''Axis of Resistance'' ( fa, محور مقاومت, translit=mehvar–e moqâvemat, ) refers to an anti-Western, anti-Israeli and anti-Saudi political and informal military alliance between Iran, Palestine, the Syrian Government and t ...

, and was also led in the capture of many parts of the region -- particularly Khan-Tuman and Me'rateh from rebels. At last, Khan Tuman was entirely liberated in January 2019.

Ceasefire violation

According to

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newspaper, Takfiris did a widespread violation of ceasefire; it reported: "

Jaish al-Fatah The Army of Conquest ( ar, جيش الفتح) or Jaish al-Fatah, abbreviated JaF, was a joint command center of Sunni Islamist Syrian rebel factions participating in the Syrian Civil War. The alliance was formed in March 2015 under the supe ...

(the former Jabhat

al-Nusra Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra ( ar, جبهة النصرة لأهل الشام, Jabhat an-Nuṣrah li-Ahl ish-Sham lit. ''Front of the Supporters of the People of Syria/the Levant''), known as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham ( ar, جبهة فتح ال ...

), whose structure has recently been rebuilt with the alliance of other groups, violated the ceasefire by attacking the strategic area of Khan-Tuman" -- located at the south of

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Forces

At Khan-Tuman operation, the forces of "Axis of Resistance" were formed of: 280 forces from Syria, 70 combatants from Iranian

s of Mazandaran, 850 fighting men from

Liwa Fatemiyoun Liwa Fatemiyoun ( ar, لِوَاء الْفَاطِمِيُّون, Liwā’ al-Fāṭimīyūn, Persian/Dari: or ), literally "Fatimid Banner", also known as Fatemiyoun Division or Fatemiyoun Brigade, is an Afghan Shia militia formed in 2014 to f ...

brigade (Afghanistan), 400 combatants from

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(Iraq) who were fighting the rebels.

Casualties

Al-Nusra Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra ( ar, جبهة النصرة لأهل الشام, Jabhat an-Nuṣrah li-Ahl ish-Sham lit. ''Front of the Supporters of the People of Syria/the Levant''), known as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham ( ar, جبهة فتح ال ...

casualties were about 400 fighters at Khan-Tuman operation; on the other side, as a result of the intensity of the attacks, 13 (Iranian) fighters of the 25th Karbala Division --from Mazandaran Province-- were finally killed and around 21 of them were wounded. Among the Iranian forces whose bodies was sought and brought to Iran, are as follows: Reza-Hajizadeh, Ali-Abedini, Mohammad-Balbasi, Hassan-Rajaefar from Mazandaran province, Zakaria-Shiri from Qazvin province, Majid-Salmanian from

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, and Mahmoud Radmehr.

Result

At an initial step of the fight, Khan-Tuman was possessed by the Jabhat al-Nusra and its allies on Friday, 6 May 2016. But, after a vast battles, Syrian army forces and

liberated Aleppo city and Khan-Tuman town during an operation on 29 January 2019 in Syria.Wireless conversations released during Operation Khan Tuman + Video
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