Kurdish fighters have advanced against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group in the southern rim of Syria’s northern city of Kobane, killing 13 IS militants, a monitoring group said Monday.

Intense battles have continued in the southern part of Kobane, also known as Ayn al-Arab, where Kurdish fighters of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) unleashed a counter-offensive against IS positions in that part of the predominantly Kurdish town, stripping them of two sites the IS had managed to establish a foothold at, Xinhua reported citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

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An Iraqi senior government official claimed that up to 10,000 Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters are on the outskirts of Baghdad ready to attack the capital, the Telegraph newspaper reported on Saturday.

As Iraqi officials continue to urge the United States to deploy ground troops into the war-stricken country, a roadside bomb killed the police chief of Iraq’s battleground province of Anbar on Sunday, officials were quoted by Agence France-Presse as saying.

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Thick smoke, debris and fire could be seen rising over the Syrian town of Kobane as fighting intensified between Syrian Kurds and ISIS

Kurdish fighters thwarted a bid by Islamic State group jihadists to advance into the centre of the battleground Syrian town of Kobane early this morning, according to a monitoring group.

The attack came after the IS militants overran Kurdish headquarters in the border town yesterday.

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As ISIS gangs are continuing to attack the Kobanê town of West Kurdistan with all their forces, and the YPG forces are bravely resisting attacks for weeks now, fighting has intensified on the eastern and southern fronts in the evening, on the 25th day of the historic resistance.

According to the reports provided by ANHA (Hawar News Agency) correspondents on the ground, fierce fighting is continuing in many areas as YPG forces are repulsing the concentrated attacks gangs have been launching with reinforcements and heavy weapons for the last three days.

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Two bomb attacks in Yemen Thursday killed 47 protesters in the capital Sana’a and 19 troops at a checkpoint in the far south-east, state news agency Saba reported.

The attack in the capital targeted a protest held by the Houthi Shiite rebel movement, with Houthi officials saying several children were among the victims.

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