
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters have taken control of a Syrian border village in the eastern outskirts of Ayn Al-Arab, a town on Syrian-Turkish borders, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said Friday.
ISIL took control of the village, inhabited mostly by Kurds, following violent clashes with Kurdish fighting units, SOHR said in a press statement, adding that the village was later rattled by a heavy explosion.
"Sound of firing, caused by mutual gunshot between the Turkish border guards and ISIL fighters, was heard on the Turkish-Syrian border in the eastern countryside of Ayn Al-Arab," the statement said, adding that "two surface-to-surface missiles struck an area held by the Islamic battalions in the neighborhood of Al-Sharafeyyi and another area in al Meleh square in Old Aleppo." Meanwhile, over 200 fighters have joined ISIL in Aleppo, eastern Syria, since the declaration of carrying out strikes against ISIL in Syria and Iraq by the International-Arab Coalition, SOHR said, adding that around 73 men at least joined ISIL in the northern eastern countryside of Aleppo on September 24th and 25th.
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