Nevertheless, they managed to slow the advance of ISIL with support from the MFS and mostly Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG),[7] though subsequent events led to the guards distancing themselves from both. On the evening of 21 April 2015, two leading Khabour Guard commanders, David Gindo and Elias Nasser, were abducted, blindfolded, shot and left for dead in an area close to the village of Jumayla.