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Kurdish Peshmerga troops participate in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State militants in a village on the outskirts of the province of Nineveh near the border province of Dohuk, August 9, 2014 |
A female commander of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) has broken into an Islamic State bastion and detonated herself with a grenade, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Sunday.
"Aleppo province: a female commander in YPG broke into [Islamic State] bastion around the eastern outskirts of [Ayn al-Arab], clashed with them, fired grenades then detonated herself with a grenade," the organization wrote.
According to the Observatory, clashes continue "around dozens of points" near Ayn al-Arab, as the IS has taken over 350 villages around the city.