Tell Tamer (Arabic: تَلّ تَمْر, romanized: Tall Tamr, Kurdish: گرێ خورما, romanized: Girê Xurma[2] or Til Temir,[3] Syriac: ܬܠ ܬܡܪ[4][5]) also known as Tal Tamr or Tal Tamir, is a town in western al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria.

About 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) to the east, the landscape ascends to the Ard al-Shaykh volcanic basalt plateau.

The intersection with the M4 highway (Aleppo–Mosul) and the nearby river crossing make Tell Tamer an essential transport hub.

[9] Since IS militants captured the city of Raqqa in January 2014, some Assyrians from there and from Al-Thawrah fled to Tell Tamer as refugees.

[citation needed] In February 2015 the town was captured by the Islamic State militia,[10] resulting in the abduction of about 90 residents.

[15] Its original inhabitants are Assyrians from the Upper Tyari tribe, who came to the area from Hakkari region in Turkey via Iraq.

A large green-domed brick mosque built in the 1970s serves the growing Muslim community just to the south of the town center.