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US -led coalition jets strike Islamic State targets in Kobani

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09-11-2014 | 13:17

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At least four air strikes by the U.S.-led coalition hit the predominantly Kurdish border town of Kobani on Sunday (November 9), according to a Reuters correspondent on the Turkish side of the border.

Coalition jets targeted the eastern side of the strategic town and Kurdish Peshmerga forces positioned on the western outskirts shot rockets towards surrounding villages.

The town, known as Ayn al-Arab in Arabic, has been besieged by Islamic State fighters since September, becoming one of the highest-profile battlefields of the war.

Iraqi Kurdish fighters, who have been drawn into the battle to back up their Syrian kinsmen, fired volleys of rockets towards Islamic State positions in villages around the town.

Machine-gun fire rang out through the center of Kobani, where several mortars also landed.

After losing scores of men in the weeks-long assault, Islamic State has now called on dozens of its fighters in the northeast of Aleppo province to head west towards Kobani, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.

Kobani has become a test of the U.S.-led coalition's ability to halt the advance of the Sunni Muslim insurgents.

The town is one of few areas in Syria where it can co-ordinate air strikes with operations by an effective ground force.

REUTERS

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