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Battle of Markada
| Battle of Markada | |||||||
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| Part of inter-rebel conflict during the Syrian Civil War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 al Nusra Front |
 Katiba al-Bittar al-Libi | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Abu Mohammad al-Julani (Leader of the Al-Nusra Front) |
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Leader of ISIL) Omar al-Farouk al-Turki † (Top provincial ISIL commander)[2] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 120 killed[3] | |||||||
The Battle of Markada (also spelled "Markadah" or "Markadahin")[4] was a military confrontation between two jihadist groups, al Qaeda's al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), over the town of Markada in the Al-Hasakah Governorate, in March 2014 during the Syrian civil war.[3] The strategic importance of the town to the ISIL lay in its position on the group's weapons supply route from Iraq, the road linking Al-Hasakah with Deir ez-Zor and a hill that dominates the surrounding area.[5] On the ISIL side there were many Sunni Iranians, including Kurds, who played an important role in the battle.[6]
- ^ Nance (2016), pp. 54–55.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ "At least 52 dead fighters from the front and the victory of the Islamic State". Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ^ A history of support for Kurdish extremists comes back to haunt Tehran
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