Activists: Syrian Kurdish fighters capture border crossing with Iraq from hard-liners

Published December 12, 2015

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows rebels from al-Qaida affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, as they sit on a truck full of ammunition, at Taftanaz air base, that was captured by the rebels, in Idlib province, northern Syria. An Islamist extremist group affiliated with al-Qaida, Jabhat al-Nusra has emerged as one of the most powerful rebel factions on the battlefield.(AP Photo/Edlib News Network, ENN, File) (The Associated Press)

A Syrian activist group says Kurdish gunmen have captured a crossing point on the Iraqi border after days of fighting with Muslim hard-liners.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Kurdish militiamen captured the Yaaroubiyeh post in northeast Syria on Saturday after three days of clashes with several jihadist groups there, including al-Qaida-linked factions Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.

The capture of the border point came hours after Syrian TV claimed that the leader of the powerful Jabhat al-Nusra has been killed. Friday's one-line report, which could not be immediately confirmed, said Abu Mohammad al-Golani died in the coastal province of Latakia.

Clashes between Kurdish fighters and jihadists in northern Syria have killed hundreds of people in the past months.

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