<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" id="mwAX4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Syrian civil war">Syrian civil war</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ras_al-Ayn_(2012–13)" id="mwAX8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Ras al-Ayn (2012–13)">Battle of Ras al-Ayn</a> resumes between the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Protection_Units" id="mwAYA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="People's Protection Units">People's Protection Units</a> (YPG) and Islamist forces, beginning the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojava–Islamist_conflict" id="mwAYE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rojava–Islamist conflict">Rojava–Islamist conflict</a>.<sup about="#mwt83" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"}}' id="cite_ref-16" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_16#cite_note-16" id="mwAYI" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 16;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAYM">[16]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"><cite about="#mwt80" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFLister2015">Lister, Charles R. (2015). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=S6eKCwAAQBAJ" id="mwBwQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBwU">The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency</i></a>. <a href="./Oxford" id="mwBwY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>: <a href="./Oxford_University_Press" id="mwBwc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>. p.<span id="mwBwg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>96. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBwk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBwo" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780190462475" id="mwBws" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780190462475"><bdi id="mwBww">9780190462475</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt80" class="Z3988" id="mwBw0" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Syrian+Jihad%3A+Al-Qaeda%2C+the+Islamic+State+and+the+Evolution+of+an+Insurgency&amp;rft.place=Oxford&amp;rft.pages=96&amp;rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2015&amp;rft.isbn=9780190462475&amp;rft.aulast=Lister&amp;rft.aufirst=Charles+R.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DS6eKCwAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJuly+16"></span></span>