Raqqa campaign (2016–2017)
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The Raqqa campaign (codenamed Operation Wrath of Euphrates) was a military operation launched by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the Raqqa Governorate, with the goal of isolating and eventually capturing the Islamic State's capital city, Raqqa. The SDF also completed their other main goals and captured the Tabqa Dam, the nearby city of al-Thawrah, and the Baath Dam further downstream.
The offensive was concurrent with the Battle of al-Bab in the Aleppo Governorate, the Battle of Mosul, the Battle of Sirte (2016) in Libya, the Palmyra offensive (2017), the Central Syria campaign, the 2017 Mayadin offensive, and a reignition of fighting in Deir ez-Zor's siege.
See also
- Battle of Aleppo (2012–16)
- Raqqa campaign (2012–13)
- Battle of Raqqa (March 2013)
- 2014 Eastern Syria offensive
- Siege of Deir ez-Zor (2014–17)
- Siege of Kobanî
- Tell Abyad offensive
- Tishrin Dam offensive
- Al-Shaddadi offensive (2016)
- Manbij offensive
- Battle of Sirte (2016)
- Southern Syrian Desert campaign (December 2016–April 2017)
- Battle of Marawi
- Turkish military intervention in Syria
- Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War
- Al-Thawrah District, a district of Raqqa Governorate in which the Second, Third, and Fourth Phases of this campaign have taken place
