ISIS attacks Hasakah as YPG Kurds massacre 20 Arab civilians
Hasakah is a city in North east Syria with Kurdish majority and Arab minority. The city is controlled by YPG (Pkk in Syria) and Syrian regime forces.
ISIL launches offensive on Syria's Hasakah
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has launched an assault on the largely Kurdish city of Hasakah in northeast Syria, a UK-based monitoring group has said.
Saturday's clashes came a day after Kurdish militia killed 20 civilians accused of supporting ISIL, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"ISIL fighters started an assault on Hasakah city and reached the city's southern periphery, where they are clashing with pro-regime forces," said the group's director, Rami Abdelrahman.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/0...134454150.html
At least 50 members of the regime forces and allied militiamen killed and wounded in an attack launched by IS on the city of al- Hasakah
Al- Hasaka Province: The violent clashes between the regime forces and allied militiamen against IS militants are still erupting in south and southeast of the city of al- Hasakah due to an attack launched by IS this morning, information reported advancement for IS in the area. The clashes accompanied by detonating 2 booby- trapped cars targeting the regime forces’ positions in the areas. The clashes led to kill and wound about 50 members of the regime forces and allied militiamen at least, including a leading figure in al- Batth battalions, while at least 10 IS militants killed in the same clashes.
A civilian died while others were wounded due to fall of shells launched by IS on places in the center of the city of al- Hasakah.
http://www.syriahr.com/en/2015/05/at...of-al-hasakah/
