Topic summary
Eastern Syria insurgency
- Assad loyalists
Supported by:
Ba'athist Syria
Iran (alleged; until 6 December 2024) 
Iraq (alleged)
- Syria (since 2024)
- Syrian Armed Forces
- SNA (until 2025)
- Ahrar al-Sharqiya
- Gathering of the Eastern Martyrs
- Ahrar al-Sharqiya
- Harakat al-Qiyam
- Revolutionaries in the Land of Deir ez-Zor
- Special Tasks Battalion
- Pro-opposition tribes
DAANES
Syrian Democratic Forces
Self-Defence Forces (HXP)
Internal Security Forces (Asayish)- Pro-SDF Arab tribes
- CJTF–OIR
PKK(claimed by Turkey, ISIL and the Popular Resistance)
Thabit Sobhi Fahd Al-Ahmad † Mohammed Remedan Eyd al-Talah (POW)
Mazloum Abdi
Eric T. Hill
Military of ISIL- Insurgent forces
- Army of the Security Forces
- Sleeper cells
- Insurgent forces
- Ba'athist Syria loyalists
- Popular Resistance in Raqqa
- Popular Resistance in Hasakah
- Popular Resistance in Manbij
- Supported by:
IRGC (alleged)
Popular Mobilization Forces (alleged)
- Syrian Democratic Forces
- Internal Security Forces
- CJTF–OIR
- Special Operations Joint Task Force (SOJTF)
Unknown, probably thousands 60,000–75,000 (2017 est.)c. 2,000 (2018 est.)
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 injured10 killed
3 killed
3 injured
The Eastern Syria insurgency was an armed insurgency waged by remnants of the Islamic State and both pro- and anti-Ba'athist SyriaArab 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.