Operation Active Fence

Operation Active Fence
	Part of Syrian Civil War
	; NATO Operation Active Fence: U.S. and NATO Patriot missile batteries
Date	December 2012 - Present ;
Location	southeastern Turkish border region with Syria
Result	Ongoing NATO operation; To protect southern Turkey from possible missile attacks from Syria;
Belligerents
NATO-led coalition; Spain (since January 2015); - Up to August 2014 Turkey; United States; - Up to January 2015 Netherlands; - Up to October 2015 Germany;	Syria
Commanders and leaders
; (Operational Commander); ; ; ;	Unknown
Strength
Patriot missiles	Syria Unknown
Casualties and losses
None	None

Operation Active Fence is an active and ongoing NATO operation to protect the Turkish southern border region with Syria as part of the ongoing Syrian Civil War.

The Arab Spring was a wave of uprisings and protests in North Africa and the Middle East. The first disturbances were in December 2010 in Tunisia. However, in March 2011, when the Arab Spring reached Syria, the Syrian Civil war broke out. This led to tensions with its northern neighbor of Turkey. The Turkish government, as a member of NATO, asked the alliance for help to protect its airspace from possible missile attacks from Syria, thus causing a possible wider war.

Patriot missiles were deployed solely to protect Turkish territory against any possible missile attacks from Syria. They were not used to support any no-fly zone and were not used for any offensive action. During the six-year deployment there were several identified launches of rockets from within Syrian territory, but none of the missiles were aimed at Turkey or entered Turkish airspace to date.

173rd Airborne Brigade paratroopers secure NATO missile-defense sites ^[2]

References[]

^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) NATO fact sheet on contributing nations as of 6 April 2011
^ "173rd Airborne Brigade paratroopers secure NATO missile-defense sites". www.army.mil. Retrieved 2019-01-14.

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[natocoalition-1] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) NATO fact sheet on contributing nations as of 6 April 2011

[army.mil-2] "173rd Airborne Brigade paratroopers secure NATO missile-defense sites". www.army.mil. Retrieved 2019-01-14.

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