Battle of Tell Hamis and Tell Brak (2013–2014)

Battle of Tell Hamis and Tell Brak
	Part of the al-Hasakah Governorate campaign (2012–13) of the Syrian Kurdish–Islamist conflict (2013–present)
	; Map of the battle
Date	26 December 2013–7 January 2014; (1 week and 5 days)
Location	Tell Hamis Subdistrict, Qamishli District and Bir al-Helou al-Wardiya Subdistrict, al-Hasakah District, al-Hasakah Governorate, northeast Syria36°45′31″N 41°23′56″E / 36.7586°N 41.3989°E
Result	ISIL victory
Belligerents
Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) Democratic Union Party (PYD) People's Protection Units (YPG); Women's Protection Units (YPJ); ; Syriac Union Party Syriac Military Council (MFS); ;	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; Al-Nusra Front; Islamic Front Ahrar al-Sham; Jaysh al-Islam; Free Syrian Army; (pro-rebel claim)
Commanders and leaders
	Sipan Hemo; (YPG general commander); Hasan Cudi; Unidentified Arab leaders
Casualties and losses
54 killed; 150 killed; (per The Arab Chronicle); 35 captured, all executed	21 killed; (per SOHR); 80+ IF and FSA fighters and 20+ foreign ISIL fighters killed; (per The Arab Chronicle)
	Several civilians killed
	Location of Tell Hamis within Syria

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.