In the offensive of fighters of the Islamic State on the Syrian Kurdish city of Kobane, 12 people died and around 70 were wounded, hospital officials announced.
The attack began with the explosion of a car bomb and continued with an onslaught of jihadists who Syrian state television reported had entered the territory of Syria from Turkey, Reuters reported.
Kurdish forces, with air support from American planes and their allies, regained control of that Syrian border town near the border with Turkey five months ago, after a four-month siege by IS fighters.
IS launched attacks on Syrian government forces and Kurdish militia overnight as they lost swathes of territory won in the past few days and in their stronghold in northern Syria's Raqqa province.
Syrian state television reports that IS fighters expelled the residents of the town of Al Nashwa in Hasakah district in the north-east of the country.
Jihadists drove residents from their homes, a local monitoring group said earlier today as IS fighters retook parts of the city from government forces in clashes overnight.
In a separate offensive, Syrian rebel groups attacked government-held areas in the southern city of Daraa, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Syrian rebel group Al-Nusra Front, considered to be al-Qaeda's branch in Syria, attacked government-held parts of the city, while the powerful Islamist rebel group Ahrar al-Sham bombarded government positions with artillery fire.
The Syrian state news agency SANA reported that "terrorists are hitting settlements near the city of Dar with bombs," adding that there were reports of casualties.
AFP reminds that about 70 percent of the Dara province of the same name is under the control of Syrian rebel groups that have made several inroads in the region in the last few weeks.
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