 On 24 November 2012, rebels were surrounding the airport.During the night of 6 December 2014, ISIS took control over the missiles battalion to the northeast of the airport and tried to storm the airbase itself, but failed.On 5 September 2017, the Tiger Forces and the 17th Division troops started an offensive to eventually capture Thardeh Mountains, which were captured by ISIL fighters after CJTF-OIR forces conducted the September 2016 Deir ez-Zor air raid upon then-besieged Syrian Army soldiers and thus lift the siege of the airport imposed by ISIL since then.