![Kurds and Islamists clash in eastern Syria](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/1371735520031171100-e1374231244929.jpg)
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Kurdish fighters from the Popular Protection Units (YPG) are pictured in Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood, June 7, 2013. (REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman.)
![Kurds and Islamists clash in eastern Syria](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/1371735520031171100-e1374231244929.jpg)
Kurdish fighters from the Popular Protection Units (YPG) are pictured in Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood, June 7, 2013. (REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman.)