Six gang members were killed in an attack People's Defense Units (YPG) fighters launched against a headquarters of the ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and Sham) in the Birkino village of Girê Spi (Tal Abyad) on Sunday. YPG fighters also destroyed a military vehicle of the gang groups.

The al-Qaeda linked jihadist groups have remarkable been repulsed from this region since YPG launched the "Qamishlo and Kobani Martyrs Revolutionary Operation" in south Tırbespiyê on 12 November.