SURUC, Turkey – Kurdish militiamen are putting up a fierce fight to defend a Syrian town near the border with Turkey but are struggling to repel the Islamic State group, which is advancing and pushing in from two sides, Syrian activists and Kurdish officials said Saturday. The battle for Kobani is still raging despite more than two weeks of airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition targeting the militants in and around the town. The strikes, which are aimed at rolling back the militants’ gains, appear to have done little to blunt their onslaught on Kobani, which began in mid-September. Just outside the Turkish town of Suruc, across the border from Kobani, some 200 people gathered at a cemetery on Saturday to bury two Kurdish fighters, a woman and a man, who died in the fighting. - ISIS captured Kobane yesterday but ceased their advance into Turkey since there was a battalion of Turkish tanks waiting right over the ridge for them. As a final eff you though, the raising of the ISIS flag over the city was met with a missile strike killing the flag raiser but leaving the flag. youtu.be/ZSQw5UsP4v8
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 23:50:27 +0000
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