Syria: Islamic State militants advance in Kobane despite air strikes
Islamic State fighters have pushed into two districts of the strategically important Syrian border town of Kobane in fierce fighting, Kurdish officials among the town’s defenders said.
“Tonight [Islamic State] has entered two districts with heavy weapons, including tanks. Civilians may have died because there are very intense clashes,” Asya Abdullah, co-chair of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the main Syrian Kurdish group defending the area, told Reuters from the town.
Another PYD official said that despite continuing US-led coalition airstrikes on Wednesday evening, Islamic State fighters had seized some buildings on the eastern edges of the town.
Gunbattles and explosions echoed from the embattled town as Islamic State militants detonated a car bomb and US-led airstrikes hit the northern edge of the town, close to the Turkish border.