Syrian Kurds Expel Radical Muslims From Town: Activist

Syrian Kurdish fighters have expelled a group linked to al-Qaeda from their border town after clashes that left 11 people dead, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said today.

The fighting pitted combatants from the Kurdish Defense Units against radical Islamists attached to the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which are both al-Qaeda affiliates, Rami Abdurrahman, founder of the U.K.-based Observatory, said in a phone interview. The confrontation began yesterday in Ras al-Ain, al-Hasaka Province, he said.