Khan al-Asal

Khan al-Assal during the Syrian Civil War

2013

• Early in March 2013 at least 120 government soldiers/policemen and 80 rebels were killed during a battle over the Khan al-Asal Police Academy.
• The village was the location of a chemical weapon attack on 19 March 2013, which resulted in at least 26 fatalities and more than 86 injuries. At the time of the incident, there was ongoing shelling between the Syrian army and the opposition forces, located in areas surrounding the village.

• The village was taken by rebel forces on 22 July 2013. In the aftermath of the fall of the village, the rebel forces, and specifically the Al-Nusra Front, were accused of executing 51 captured government soldiers. Video material collected online by the United Nations, indicates that they were executed by gunfire after their capture by members of the Ansar al-Khilafa Brigade.

  2020

• The Syrian Army liberated the village on 11 February 2020.