Clashes between Kurds and Assad forces for the first time

(IraqiNews.com) The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that clashes between the Syrian regime forces and the Kurdish forces have erupted for the first time in the city of Al-Haskah in the far northeastern Syria, resulting in the death of at least 6 people.

The Observatory said that the clashes that began at dawn on Saturday continued throughout the day, and resulted in the death of 4 elements of the Syrian regime forces and  one Kurdish fighter, as well as a woman who was killed as a result of the fall of shells in an area controlled by protection units of the Kurdish people.

Al-Hasakah city has recently become the scene of a wave of clashes and mutual shelling between the regime forces and militias loyal to it against the protection units of the Kurdish people of the Democratic Union Party.