The Khabour Guards (Syriac: ܡܘܬܒܐ ܕܢܛܘܪ̈ܐ ܕܚܒܘܪ, romanized: Mawtḇā d-Nāṭorē d-Ḥābor; Arabic: مجلس حرس الخابور الآشوري) is an Assyrian militia in Syria created after the collapse of Syrian government control in the Assyrian-majority Khabur valley in the northwest of al-Hasakah Governorate.

In consequence, the Khabour Guards gave up their attempts to stay neutral[4] and joined Sutoro, a security force formed by the Syriac Union Party.

Nevertheless, they managed to slow the advance of ISIL with support from the MFS and mostly Kurdish People's Defense 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.

[13] In late 2019, the Khabour Guards fought alongside other SDF groups against the Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria, as Turkey and allied militias targeted the Khabur valley.

In this context, the Khabour Guards' spokesman Nabil Warde declared that the Turks were "our long-time enemies", referencing the late Ottoman genocides of Christians in 1915–1918.