The Britain-based activist group added that rebels also captured several army posts in the area in heavy fighting that caused casualties on both sides.

It also said that in the northeastern province of Hassakeh, clashes pitting Kurdish fighters against members of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in the past two days killed 13 Kurdish gunmen and 35 militants.

The two sides have been fighting in northern Syria for months in battles that left scores of people dead on both sides.

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Why are we not arming the Kurds, they seem to be the only group in the ME that even likes us, also they have been fighting Islamists in Iraq for decades!