[ARA] Clashes broke out between Kurdish forces of the People's Protection Units (YPG) and snuffies of the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) in the vicinity of Tel Abyad town in the northeastern Syrian province of Raqqa, military sources reported on Friday.
"Subsequent to an offensive by ISIS Lions of Islam on villages near Tel Abyad town, fierce festivities took place in the area between the radical group and YPG forces," a front man for the Kurdish YPG forces told ARA News.
Nuraddin Gaban reported that ISIS snuffies launched an attack on areas stretching from Ain Issa to Tel Abyad in northern Raqqa on Thursday, "which to led festivities that continued until Friday evening".
The source added that more than five ISIS snuffies were killed before the group's withdrawal towards its main headquarters in Raqqa city.
"We have lost two of our bravest fighters in the festivities. But we were finally able to repel the terrorists' attack," the YPG front man said.
Gaban added that the YPG has seized weapons and ammunition that was left behind by ISIS snuffies before retreating from the festivities' locations.
In the meantime, the YPG General Command issued a statement saying that ISIS group infiltrated into the village of Ser Giran near Tel Abyad on Thursday evening, adding that the group withdrew after being exposed to heavy artillery shelling by the Kurdish forces.