Kurdish fighters defeat Al Qaida militia at key weapons depot near Syria-Turkey border

Special to WorldTribune.com

NICOSIA — Al Qaida’s powerful militia has been defeated in northern
Syria.

Opposition sources said Kurdish forces overpowered the Islamic State of
Iraq and Levant near the Syrian border with Turkey.

Kurdish fighters.

Kurdish fighters.

The sources said ISIL lost a key position in three days of fierce battles around Yarubia.

“They took control of the Yarubia border crossing with Iraq at dawn after clashes with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, Al Nusra Front and other rebels,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The British-based opposition group said Kurdish fighters killed Al Qaida operatives in mortar strikes near the Turkish border on Oct. 26. Yarubia was
deemed a leading waystation for the flow of Al Qaida fighters and weapons from Turkey to Syria.

ISIL has become the most powerful rebel group in central and northern
Syria. The sources said ISIL controlled many of the points along the
900-kilometer Syrian-Turkish border.

The regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad has been pressing Nusra
units. On Oct. 26, state television said Nusra commander Abu Mohammed Al
Jolani was killed, a claim denied by the militia.

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