YPG (People's Protection Units) Press Centre said in a written statement that 2 villages and several hamlets in west Serêkaniyê have been liberated from ISIS gangs.

The statement said YPG forces carried out an action targeting the gangs deployed at two separate points between the villages of Arca Şexan and Sutûk in Jazaa late yesterday evening. 15 members of the gangs were killed and 6 others wounded in the YPG action, while a motorbike and a heavy weapon belonging to them was also destroyed.

YPG Press Centre stated that 2 villages and several hamlets have been liberated from the gangs as result of an offensive launched by YPG forces to the west of Serêkaniyê. Exact figures of casualties on the gangs' side couldn't be ascertained.