Monitor: Air strikes in Syria hit Islamic State-held areas near Turkey
 

(Adds detail, local official) BEIRUT, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Air strikes overnight hit Islamic State-held territory in Syria near the Turkish border, near an area that tens of thousands of Kurds have fled as the militant group advanced, an organisation that tracks the Syrian war said on Wednesday. Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the warplanes that carried out the raids around 30-35 km (19-22 miles) west of the city of Kobani, also k**wn as Ayn al-Arab, had come from the direction of Turkey. ...

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