Battle of Tell Hamis and Tell Brak (2013–2014)
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The Battle of Tell Hamis and Tell Brak was fought between the end of December 2013 and the start of January 2014 over control of the town of Tell Hamis and the village of Tell Brak in the al-Hasakah Governorate of northeast Syria during the Syrian Civil War. The armed wings of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), namely the People's and Women's Protection Units (YPG and YPJ), in addition to the Syriac Union Party's Syriac Military Council (MFS), attempted to capture the areas from Salafist jihadists led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the al-Nusra Front, and the Islamic Front's Ahrar al-Sham, but were repelled in a counter-offensive by the jihadists.
Battle of Tell Hamis and Tell Brak | |||||||
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Part of the al-Hasakah Governorate campaign (2012–13) of the Syrian Kurdish–Islamist conflict (2013–present) | |||||||
Map of the battle | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM)
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (pro-rebel claim)[3] | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Sipan Hemo[4] (YPG general commander) Hasan Cudi[5] Unidentified Arab leaders [5] | |||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
54 killed[6][5] |
80+ IF and FSA fighters and 20+ foreign ISIL fighters killed (per The Arab Chronicle)[3] | ||||||
Several civilians killed[5] | |||||||