Tell Abyad offensive

Tell Abyad offensive
	Part of the Syrian Civil War,; Syrian Kurdish–Islamist conflict,; and the American-led intervention in Syria
	; Map of the Tell Abyad offensive
Date	31 May – 10 July 2015; (1 month, 1 week and 3 days)
Location	Northern Raqqa Governorate, Syria
Result	Major YPG-led victory
Territorial; changes	The YPG captures Tell Abyad, Suluk, Ayn Issa, 32+ villages, the Brigade 93 base and part of the M4 Highway in northern Raqqa; The YPG & FSA geographically connects the Kobani Canton with the Jazira Canton.;
Belligerents
Rojava; Free Syrian Army; Supported by:; CJTF–OIR	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Commanders and leaders
Sipan Hemo; (YPG general commander); Binhari Kendal; (Top commander of Tell Abyad operations); Rojda Felat; (YPJ commander); Abu al-Qasim; (Liwa Thuwwar al-Raqqa commander); Abu Layla; (Northern Sun Battalion commander); Adnan Abu Amjad; (Northern Sun Battalion deputy commander); Abu Mohammed; (FSA commander); Abu Ali; (Retribution Army commander); Lt. Gen. James L. Terry; (CJTF–OIR commander)	Abu Ali al-Anbari; (Deputy, Syria); Abu Musab; (ISIL emir of Tell Abyad); Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary; Unknown Dokumacılar commander †
Units involved
Euphrates Volcano YPG; YPJ; Liwa Thuwar al-Raqqa; Army of Revolutionaries Northern Sun Battalion; ; Jaysh al-Salam Liberation Brigade; ; Retribution Army;	Military of ISIL Wilayat Raqqa; Dokumacılar;
Strength
YPG & FSA: 4,000+	1,500+
Casualties and losses
46 killed	338–599 killed,; 50 missing
	9 civilians killed; 23,000+ civilians displaced (including 13,000 Arabs and Turkmen)

The Tell Abyad offensive or Martyr Rubar Qamışlo operation was a military operation that began in late May 2015 in the northern Raqqa Governorate, during the Syrian Civil War. It was conducted by the Kurdish-majority People's Protection Units (YPG) and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The offensive took place from the end of May until July 2015. The campaign was the second phase of the Kurdish Operation Commander Rûbar Qamishlo, which began with the Al-Hasakah offensive (May 2015), and involved the merger of the Kobanî offensive with the former. The focus of the campaign was to capture the key border town of Tell Abyad, and to link the Kobanî and Jazira Cantons in Northern Syria.

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