Assault on Ras Al-Ayn

Ra's al-'Ayn (Arabic: رأس العين‎, Kurdish: Serê Kaniyê,) is a Syrian city administratively belonging to Al-Hasakah Governorate. It has a population of 55,247, mostly consisting of Assyrian/Syriacs, Arabs, Kurds and Armenians. Together with its Turkish twin city Ceylanpınar (population 44,258, also called Serê Kaniyê in Kurdish) it's divided by the Turkish-Syrian border since after WWI following the Sykes-Picot Agreement.

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Following an agreement between the Syrian Government and the local Kurdish forces in late Summer 2012, the region is mostly under self-organizing by local councils and remained peaceful during the crisis.

FSA comes to town
On November 8, around 200 FSA fighters entered the town from across the Turkish border.