At least nine Daesh (ISIS) members were killed Monday after some of them tried to escape across the Turkish border, Reuters reported.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Daesh infighting occurred in the town of al-Bab, 30 kilometers south of the Turkish border. Five of those trying to escape and four of those preventing them were killed in the clashes.
The ten members fleeing from the conflict were foreigners, one Tunisian and nine European, according to the monitor, though it was unconfirmed which of them had died.
Daesh had killed at least 120 of its own fighters as of December, the Observatory reported, most of them disillusioned foreigners trying to return home.
"I'm sick and tired. My iPod doesn't work anymore. I have to return," one had written according to Al Jazeera. Another letter was quoted: "I've done practically nothing but hand out clothes and food. I also clean weapons and transport dead fighters’ corpses."
A report estimated 20,000 foreigners to have joined the militant extremist group by January.
