Kurdish fighters in Syria seized a crossing on the eastern border with Iraq from militant forces during fierce clashes at dawn on Saturday

Kurdish fighters in Syria seized a crossing on the eastern border with Iraq from militant forces during fierce clashes at dawn on Saturday, a monitoring group said.
  
The Kurds "took control of the Al-Yaarubia border crossing with Iraq at dawn after clashes with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, the Al-Nusra Front and other rebels," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
  
The clashes left fighters dead on both sides, said the Observatory, a Britain-based organization that relies on a network of sources on the ground for its reports.
  
On Friday morning the Kurdish fighters had entered the town of Al-Yaarubia, which they have been fighting the jihadists for control of for several days.
  
The Kurds and the extremists have been fighting for months for control of northeastern Syria, an area rich in oil and wheat.
  
The Observatory said on Thursday that it would be difficult for the Kurdish forces to overrun the post because it was controlled by many ‘jihadist groups’.