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September 13, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/12/us-syria-crisis-kurds-idUSBRE98B0O520130912

Syrian Kurds Clash with Al-Qaeda-Linked Units

(Reuters) Dozens of al-Qaeda-linked rebels and Kurdish fighters have been killed in clashes in Syria's oil-producing northeast in the past two days, activists said on Thursday. Fighters from Syria's ethnic Kurdish minority - roughly 10% of its 23 million population - have carved out an autonomous region near the frontiers with Iraq and Turkey. The Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) said fighters from the Nusra Front and Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attacked a string of Kurdish villages in Hasaka province.

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