What the records say
- When
- 19 May 2013
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 34.51° N, 36.58° E
- Description
- 2013 military operation
Second Battle of al-Qusayr
2013 military operation
The Second Battle of al-Qusayr started on 19 May 2013, as part of the larger al-Qusayr offensive, launched in early April 2013 by the Syrian Army and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, during the Syrian civil war, with the aim of capturing the villages around the rebel-held town of al-Qusayr and ultimately launching an attack on the town itself.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la guerra civil siria, el gobierno invade Qusair e inicia una cruel batalla en la ciudad para recuperarla”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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