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Kurdish fighters seize wide areas of Syria's Hasaka - SOHR

AMMAN, July 26 (KUNA) -- Kurdish fighters have controlled wide areas of the Syrian northeastern city of Hasaka, while the regime troops advanced on an area in the city, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
Meanwhile, clashes erupted between the regime troops, backed by loyal forces, and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the southern part of the city, SOHR added in a statement on Saturday.
There were causalities on the two sides, it noted, adding the regime troops managed to retake some areas under the ISIL control.
There are conflicting reports about the side that controls the sports city south of Hasakah. In Raqqa governorate, ISIL targeted warplanes belonging to the Arab coalition that were flying over the city, it said.
Three explosions took place in some areas of Aleppo and Raqqa when three ISIL booby-trapped cars targeted some sites of Kurdish forces, the observatory said, without referring to causalities.
Clashes also are raging between the regime forces on one hand and Islamic battalions and fighters on the other hand around the town of Aqrab after an attack launched by the regime on the area that led to the killing of four fighters and three regime personnel, and the capturing of two of the regime forces.
According to reliable sources to SOHR, the regime forces broke into the central prison of Hama and took 25 prisoners to unknown destinations in Lattakia, Al-Suwaydaa and Tartous due to a lockout which lasted for seven days in the holy month of Ramadan. (end) tk.hm