What the records say
- When
- 1 Apr 1980 – Feb 1981
- Kind
- Siege
- Also recorded as
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 36.20° N, 37.16° E
- Description
- 1980 during the Islamic uprising in Syria
Siege of Aleppo (1980)
Event in the Islamic uprising in Syria
The siege of Aleppo refers to a military operation conducted by forces of the Ba'athist Syria led by Hafez al-Assad in 1980 during the armed conflict between the Sunni Islamist insurgents, including the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Ba'athist Syrian regime. Ba'athist Syrian forces committed several massacres in the course of the operation.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “بدء حصار حلب 1980 والذي استمر إلى فبراير 1981”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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