Ahmed Deniz, a PKK spokesman, told the Guardian that fierce fighting was continuing in several places along the border.
The Islamists briefly occupied an army camp in Achigachia after a fierce fight, but withdrew after air attacks, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck told Reuters by phone.
The SDF, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, took the National Hospital in fierce fighting overnight and early on Tuesday, said spokesman Mostafa Bali in a statement.
The deal drew fierce criticism from Liberal Democrat deputy leader and Treasury spokesman Vince Cable, who said it was a "scandal of mammoth proportions".
"Regrettably, there will be more setbacks along the way," General Allen said through a spokesman on Saturday, "but our resolve is fierce, and our commitment to this fight is total".
"It was obvious a fierce struggle had taken place," said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman.
Mr. Denis, the P.K.K. spokesman, said the soldiers had partly withdrawn after a fierce counterattack by the militants that kept the Turks from seizing Zab, a strategically important area.
A spokesman for Governor Davis said he was prepared to wage a fierce campaign to keep his job.
"The fighting was fierce, but in the end we captured the entire trading center," said the spokesman, Lt. Col. Paddy Ankunda, speaking from Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
Rebels in South Sudan are involved in fierce fighting with the army in several areas of the country, the military spokesman has told the BBC.
