Turkey steels for action as Islamic State advances on Syrian border town

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Turkey steels for action as Islamic State advances on Syrian border town
Turkey's parliament authorized the government to order military action against Islamic State on Thursday as the insurgents tightened their grip on a Syrian border town, sending thousands more Kurdish refugees into Turkey.       

The vote gives the government powers to order incursions into Syria and Iraq to counter the threat of attack "from all terrorist groups", although there was little sign that any such action was imminent.           

The mandate also allows foreign troops to launch operations from Turkey, a NATO member which hosts a U.S. air base in its southern town of Incirlik, but which has so far resisted a frontline role in the military campaign against the insurgents.       

"The rising influence of radical groups in Syria threatens Turkey's national security... The aim of this mandate is to minimise as much as possible the impact of the clashes on our borders," Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz told parliament.          

Islamic State fighters advanced to within a few kilometres of the mainly Kurdish border town of Kobani on three sides on Thursday, extending their gains after taking control of hundreds of villages around the town in recent weeks.          

Smoke rose behind hills to the south of Kobani as the insurgents continued their shelling into the night. Dozens of anti-tank missiles with bright-red tracers flashed through the sky as darkness enveloped the town.       

Kobani's electricity supply was cut after militants bombarded a local power grid, a Kurdish fighter told Reuters.         


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