Clashes renewed on Sunday between Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and militants of the ISIS in the countryside of Kobane in Syria’s northern Aleppo province, military sources reported.
At least 20 ISIS militants were killed, including the ISIS commander Abu Firas al-Safwani, at the hands of the YPG fighters near the Tishreen Dam in the southwestern countryside of Kobane.
“ISIS militants first attacked a YPG security centre south of Kobane by mortar fire. The attacked caused the death of five of our fighters and injured several others,” a spokesman for the YPG said on Sunday.
“Then clashes broke out between our forces and ISIS militants in the vicinity of Tishreen Dam. We were eventually able to repel the attack after killing more than 20 militants, including the prominent ISIS leader Abu Firas al-Safwani,” the Kurdish official said.
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