Battle of Tell Abyad (2013)

Battle of Tell Abyad (2013)
	Part of the Rojava–Islamist conflict and; the Rojava conflict; and Syrian civil war
	; Map of the Syrian civil war in November 2013
Date	19–30 July 2013; (1 week and 4 days)
Location	Tell Abyad, Tell Abyad District, Raqqa Governorate, Syria
Result	ISIL/Nusra/Ahrar al-Sham victory Kurdish forces driven out of Tell Abyad; Thousands of civilians displaced;
Belligerents
Kurdish Front Sheikh Ayoub Battalion; Democratic Union Party People's Protection Units; Women's Protection Units;	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; Al-Nusra Front; Ahrar al-Sham Al-Sakhana Brigades;
Commanders and leaders
Haji Ahmed Kurdi (Kurdish Front commander)	Khalaf Thiyab "Abu Musab" (POW) (al-Nusra Front commander)
Casualties and losses
Unknown	25–34 killed

The 2013 battle of Tell Abyad was a military confrontation in the town of Tell Abyad between the Kurdish Front and the Democratic Union Party-affiliated People's Protection Units and Women's Protection Units against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the al-Nusra Front (both al-Qaeda affiliates), and Ahrar al-Sham, resulting in a Kurdish defeat and the jihadist capture of the town.

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