A female Kurdish fighter blew herself up at a gathering of the Islamic State (IS) terror group near the predominantly Kurdish city of Kobane in northern Syria on Sunday, according to the oppositional Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The unnamed woman, which was a leading figure at the Kurdish militants of the People's Protection Unites or YPG, stormed a gathering of the IS fighters at the eastern outskirts of Kobane, hurling grenades at them before blowing herself up, according to the Observatory.

The Observatory, while stopping short of giving details on death toll, said the incident marked the first instance where a female fighter carried out a suicide mission, especially in Kobane where Kurdish female fighters fight alongside the Kurdish men to defend the city against the wide-scale attack by the IS.

The clashes around Kobane are still incessant as the IS succeeded to seize control over 350 villages around Kobane since they unleashed the attack against the city in September, according to the Observatory.

The suicide bombing by the Kurdish woman came just a couple of days after another 19-year-old Kurdish woman fighter shot herself down after finding herself surrounded by IS forces near Kobane.

Ceylan Ozalp was reportedly ambushed alongside six of her female comrades near Kobane. After all of her friends were killed and she ran out of bullets, the IS fighters began approaching her when she decided to end her life with the last bullet she had kept to kill herself to avoid falling in captivity.

Kobane, also known as Ayn al-Arab, has been subject to ferocious attacks by IS militants over the past two weeks. IS fighters have succeeded in capturing hundreds of Kurdish villages around Kobane, sending tens of thousands of people fleeing toward the Turkish borders.

Kurdish activists accused Turkey of cooperating with the IS to empty the city of its residents so that it could impose a buffer zone on the Syrian side of the borders under the pretext of helping the refugees.

The U.S.-led anti-terror coalition has repeatedly struck IS positions around Kobane, but did not stop the ferocious attacks by the group.

Syrian Kurds, whose communities largely live in the northern parts of the country, have reached a deadlock in their fight with IS militants who have repeatedly tried to storm Kurdish-dominated Syrian areas. Accounting for some 15 percent of the Syria's 23 million population, the Kurds are mostly living in the northern part of the embattled country. Endi

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