The UK-based Syrian Observatory reported fierce clashes took place Wednesday evening between the Kurdish People’s Protection Units and militants of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Levant.

The opposition UK-based Syrian Observatory reported fierce clashes took place Wednesday evening between the Kurdish People's Protection Units and militants of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Levant in the region separating between Jenderes in Aleppo countryside and the Atma area in rural Idlib province.

"An emir of ISIL was killed during clashes erupted in 'Aleppo State' holding the Emirati nationality, amid continued sporadic clashes," the Observatory said.

ISIL gunmen have first attacked at dawn Tuesday two checkpoints for the Kurd People's Protection Units, which provoked clashes between the two sides and left several casualties in ISIL ranks.

The Syrian Opposition Observatory announced that the militants who belong to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fractured the Cross of a Roman Catholic church in the city of Raqaa.

The militants also erected ISIL flag on an Armenian church, which lies near al-Rashid Park, after descending the Cross.

Recently, fierce clashes erupted between the ISIL, Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front terrorist group and the so-called free Syrian army in the wake of disputes on power and control sharing over areas not reclaimed so far by the Syrian army.

The Syrian national military launched a wide-scale military operation in May 2013 in the country's main provinces to restore security and release citizens from terrorist threats.

Syria was hit by a violent unrest since mid-March 2011, where the Syrian government accuses foreign actors of orchestrating the conflict by supporting the militant opposition groups with arms and money.