Syria Army, Kurds push IS out of Hasakeh city: Monitor

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Daesh fighters infiltrated Sarrin, a town in Aleppo province recently captured by Kurdish forces, and attacked a school being used as a base by Kurds.

Hasaka is the capital of a strategically important province that borders territory held by Islamic State in Iraq.

But in recent months it has experienced a series of defeats at the hands of Kurdish fighters in northern and northeastern Syria.

At least 287 IS fighters were killed in the Hasakeh assault, either in clashes with regime troops and the Kurdish People´s Protection Units (YPG) or in air strikes by a US-led coalition, the Observatory said.

The Kurdish foreign legion fighting ISIS in Syria has a New Yorker in its ranks – and for him it’s all about revenge for 9/11.

The jihadi group began its assault on Hasakeh city on June 25, seizing several neighborhoods before regime and Kurdish forces began a fightback.

“We have to stand behind him, and especially now, more so, because he is fighting for a just cause”, his father said.

The capture of the town, which lies on the east bank of the Euphrates river, is the latest victory for Kurdish forces in Syria against IS. The conflict – now in its fourth year – birthed a rash of rebel groups, from the moderate Free Syrian Army to the Islamist Jabhat al Nusra and now ISIS, fighting to unseat Syria’s President Bashar Assad.

O’Brien, meanwhile, said on Tuesday he hoped to secure better humanitarian access to Syrians in need, and added that he hoped to visit Homs in western Syria on a trip to the country next month.