Tell Abyad

Government

Tall Abyad (Arabic تل أبيض, DMG Tall Abyad, Kurdish Gire SIPI ) is the name for both a district in the Syrian government of al-Raqqa, and for the same capital. The city lies on the River exposure on the border with Turkey, and has about 14,825 inhabitants ( 2004). The population of the city and the surrounding area is made up of Arabs, Kurds and Syrian Christians.

Civil war in Syria

In the course of Syrian civil war took place in and around the city armed clashes between Kurdish and Islamist forces. On July 20, 2013 Kurds to local commanders ( Amir ), Abu Musab, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant had temporarily fixed (ISIS). In addition, there were also clashes between Dschabhat al - Akrad and Dschabhat al - Nusra. In the city ISIS steel baskets with foods that had put together a unit of the Syrian National Council for civilians in need, because the unit had not coordinated the delivery of the baskets with ISIS.

In Tall Abyad Kurdish units of the Free Syrian Army ( FSA) ran over. The area around Tall Abyad, a border corridor to Turkey, the scene of fighting between Kurds, FSA and radical Islamists has become. Kurdish reportedly also Turkish forces have been involved with drones and artillery.