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Contemporary era · 2017

Palmyra offensive

The Palmyra offensive in 2017 was launched by the Syrian Arab Army against the armed forces of the Islamic State (IS) in the Eastern Homs Governorate in January 2017, with the goal of recapturing Palmyra and its surrounding countryside.

Palmyra offensive
Palmyra offensive · Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
When
2017
Where
Tadmur District
Era
Contemporary

Topics

Syria1,274 BCE – today

Before and after

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