<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" id="mwAaA" 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="mwAaE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Ras al-Ayn (2012–13)">Battle of Ras al-Ayn</a> ends with the expulsion of Islamist forces from the city by the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Protection_Units" id="mwAaI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="People's Protection Units">People's Protection Units</a> (YPG).<sup about="#mwt64" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_20#cite_note-11" id="mwAaM" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAaQ">[11]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"><cite about="#mwt61" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFLister2015">Lister, Charles R. (2015). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=S6eKCwAAQBAJ" id="mwB2g" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB2k">The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency</i></a>. <a href="./Oxford" id="mwB2o" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>: <a href="./Oxford_University_Press" id="mwB2s" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>. pp.<span id="mwB2w" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>96–97. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB20" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB24" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780190462475" id="mwB28" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780190462475"><bdi id="mwB3A">9780190462475</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt61" class="Z3988" id="mwB3E" 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=96-97&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+20"></span></span>