On 9 August 2018, The National Front for Liberation clashed with YPG in Kafr Nabu and Ba'ai in the southern part of the Afrin district near the border with the Idlib Governorate, during the clashes 4 fighters belonging to YPG were killed and several light weapons and explosives were seized by the National Front for Liberation afterwards from YPG, a representative from the National Front for Liberation told journalists that the group had been monitoring the YPG cell in the area for months as the area had seen heightened levels of violence, mainly being assassinations targeting fighters and civilians with links to the Free Syrian Army on behalf of YPG cells active in the region.[14]