IS fighter blows himself up at Kurdish forces HQ in northern Syria

A suicide bomber with the Islamic State (IS) militant group blew himself up near the headquarters of Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria on Friday, killing two people, a monitor group and state TV reported after midnight.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based watchdog group, said the IS suicide bomber blew himself up near a position of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), adding that the bomber likely exploded inside the headquarters of the YPG in the southwestern countryside of al-Hasakah province.

Human losses are confirmed among the Kurds, it said, stopping short of giving a death toll.

Meanwhile, the Syrian official TV said two people were killed and three others wounded as a result of the blast that took place in Tuq al-Milh town in al-Hasakah.

The Kurds are in control of the majority of northern al-Hasakah and the borderline with Turkey, while the IS terror group controls the city of Shadadi and its villages south of al-Hasakah as well as areas in the eastern and western countryside of that province. Enditem