Residents and fighters said Street Fighting raged between Kurdish defenders and Islamic State militants who advanced into Kobani on Monday after subjecting the Syrian border Town to an assault lasting almost three weeks. Islamic State had earlier raised its black flag over a building in the outskirts and forced thousands more of Kobani's mainly Kurdish inhabitants to flee for their lives across the nearby border into Turkey. The head of the Kurdish forces defending the Town said late on Monday that Islamic State forces were 300 meters inside Kobani's eastern district and were shelling the remaining neighborhoods. Islamic State wants to take Kobani to consolidate a dramatic sweep across **rthern Iraq and Syria, in the name of an absolutist version of Sunni Islam, that has sent shockwaves through the Middle East.
10-07-2014, 10:40 AM
Street Fighting Rages In Syrian Town As Islamic State Moves In
Residents and fighters said Street Fighting raged between Kurdish defenders and Islamic State militants who advanced into Kobani on Monday after subjecting the Syrian border Town to an assault lasting almost three weeks. Islamic State had earlier raised its black flag over a building in the outskirts and forced thousands more of Kobani's mainly Kurdish inhabitants to flee for their lives across the nearby border into Turkey. The head of the Kurdish forces defending the Town said late on Monday that Islamic State forces were 300 meters inside Kobani's eastern district and were shelling the remaining neighborhoods. Islamic State wants to take Kobani to consolidate a dramatic sweep across **rthern Iraq and Syria, in the name of an absolutist version of Sunni Islam, that has sent shockwaves through the Middle East.
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