Armed clashes with heavy machine guns and RPGs erupted May 24 within the scope of renewed infighting between members of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA). The dispute is traced back to a tribal revenge case in the area that culminated into armed clashes expanding in most of the neighborhoods of Ras al-Ain in the Hasakah countryside. 

The armed confrontation went on until noon May 25. A man named Mohammed Al-Awad Al-Daar from the Al-Akidat tribe was killed. He was shot by Khaled Al-Abdullah, a member of the Al-Mawali tribe, under the umbrella of the SNA-affiliated Thairun Movement in Ras Al-Ain. Abdullah was reportedly avenging his brother, who was killed 10 days ago by a person affiliated with Al-Qaraab clan, a branch of the Al-Akidat tribe.

The clashes also led to the killing of two members of the Al-Mawali tribe and to mutual arrests between the two sides. Al-Akidat gunmen took control of the headquarters of the Al-Mawali tribe fighters in the city. More than nine gunmen from both sides were wounded, as were two civilians.

Tension between the two tribes expanded beyond the Ras al-Ain area to the countryside of Aleppo, where gunmen from the Al-Mawali tribe set up checkpoints on the Afrin-Jenderes road. They checked identity cards and arrested a number of people from Deir ez-Zor from the Al-Akidat tribe, documenting this in video footage.