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

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Kurdish militiamen captured the Yaaroubiyeh post in northeast Syria on Saturday, Oct 26, after three days of clashes with several jihadist groups there, including al-Qaeda-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, according to the AP.

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