The UK-based Syrian Observatory said that 14 militants of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Levant and al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front terrorist group were killed after clashes with Kurdish People’s Protection Units.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory said that 14 militants of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front terrorist group were killed after clashes with Kurdish People's Protection Units militants in the vicinity of the village of Safa in the southern countryside of Jal Agha in Hasakah province.

Four Kurds gunmen have been also killed during the engagement.

In Aleppo countryside, the observatory reported that ISIL gunmen and the rest of opposition militants attacked a checkpoint of the PPU in the vicinity of the village of Qustul Jendo in rural Afrin.

PPU, in response, bombed the ISIL headquarters with tank shells in the village of Maarin in rural Aazaz, claiming number of ISIL militants.

Another gunman of Storm of North Banner was also killed during clashes with ISIL in the same area.