Western al-Hasakah offensive | |||||||||
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Part of the Syrian Civil War, Syrian Kurdish–Islamist conflict (2013–present), and the American-led intervention in Syria |
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Kurdish fighters in Tell Tamer |
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Syrian Kurdistan Syriac Union Party Al-Sanadid Forces Air-strikes: CJTF–OIR |
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Sozdar Dêrik (YPG General Command member) Commander Rûbar Qamishlo † (YPG field commander) Sharwan Sason (YPG field commander) |
Abu Ali al-Anbari (Deputy, Syria) |
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Units involved | |||||||||
YPG YPJ Syriac Military Council (MFS) Sutoro Khabour Guards |
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Strength | |||||||||
Sutoro: 1,000+ (June 2013) | 4,000+ | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
55 killed | 434–716 killed (YPG claim) 268 killed (SOHR claim) |
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50–120 civilians killed |
Major YPG & allied forces victory
YPG & YPJ: 5,500+
Syriac Military Council (MFS): 1,500
The Western al-Hasakah offensive, dubbed Operation Commander Rûbar Qamishlo by the Kurds, was a military operation during May 2015 in the Al-Hasakah Governorate, during the Syrian Civil War, conducted by Kurdish YPG and allied forces against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. On 31 May 2015, as most of the offensive operations in the western Al-Hasakah Governorate ended, the part of the offensive in the Ras al-Ayn countryside expanded into the Tell Abyad region, in the northern Raqqa Governorate.