An activist group and a Kurdish official said heavy clashes are taking place in northeastern Syria, with Kurdish fighters capturing about a dozen villages from Islamic militants, the Associated Press reports.
Kurdish fighters and members of the Islamic State group have been fighting each other for more than a year in northern Syria.
The latest round of violence between the two sides began Saturday, Sept 13. Members of the Kurdish-led People's Protection Units, or YPK, have captured about 14 villages, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Nawaf Khalil, a spokesman for Syria's powerful Kurdish Democratic Union Party, or PYD, told the AP on Monday that YPK forces have captured at least 10 villages in the northeastern province of Hassakeh.