Battle of Kernaz

Timeline

Civil uprising in Syria (March–August 2011)

Daraa Baniyas Homs (May–August 2011) Talkalakh Rastan and Talbiseh 1st Jisr ash-Shugur 1st Jabal al-Zawiya Hama Latakia

Start of insurgency (September 2011 – April 2012)

Homs (2011–14) Homs offensive 1st Idlib Gov. Syrian–Turkish border Jabal al-Zawiya 1st Idlib City Saraqeb 1st Rastan Hama Gov. Daraa Gov. Kernaz 1st Rif Dimashq 1st Zabadani Douma Deir ez-Zor (2011–2014) Hatla Aleppo Gov. Azaz 2nd Rastan 1st al-Qusayr 2nd Idlib Gov. Taftanaz

Cease-fire and civil war (May 2012 – December 2013)

Rise of the Islamists (January–September 2014)

Rebel–ISIL conflict Markada 1st Deir ez-Zor offensive al-Otaiba ambush Maan Hosn Morek 2nd Daraa offensive 2nd Latakia offensive 4th Idlib Gov. Al-Malihah 2nd Wadi Deif 2nd Qalamoun Arsal 1st Shaer gas field Eastern Syria Tabqa Air base 3rd Hama offensive 6th Rif Dimashq Quneitra Kobanî

United States-led intervention (September 2014 – September 2015)

Russian intervention (September 2015 – March 2016)

Aleppo escalation and Turkish intervention (March 2016–present)

Syrian War spillover and international incidents

Lebanon spillover Lebanese–Syrian border Sidon Iranian embassy bombing North Lebanon Clashes Syrian–Turkish border Turkey-SAA F4 aircraft Kurdish riots Reyhanlı Russo-Turkish confrontation Russian Su-24 shootdown Syrian–Israeli ceasefire line Mazraat Amal Jordanian–Syrian border Spillover Syrian–Iraqi border Akashat al-Shabah

Foreign involvement in the
Syrian Civil War

Many peaceful demonstrations occurred in Kernaz, Hama Governorate, near the beginning of the Syrian Revolution, especially between June 2011 and September 2012.

Opposition fighters completely controlled the city until the beginning of January 2012, when the Syrian Army and supported militants surrounded the city from the west and the south. Civilians fled just a few hours before the attack.

The opposition rebels including FSA members holed up in the town, the military clashes continued for the next 3 weeks.

Results

The battle ended with the complete destruction of the town, and withdrawal of opposition forces, the government forces entered the city and expropriated it in full, and its affiliated militias looted the property of the people systematically.

More than 250 people -militants and civilians- dead in the town of Karnaz and its neighboring villages,^[1] some of the civilians have been killed under torture, almost all the buildings and facilities have been completely destroyed, and the displacement of the majority of the population, who have fled to refugee camps in Turkey.

References

↑ http://syrianshuhada.com/?a=la&p=madina&v

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