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Islamic State group jihadists were in control Thursday of more than one-third of the Syrian border town of Kobane after pushing back its Kurdish defenders, a monitoring group said.
“Despite fierce resistance from the Kurdish forces, IS advanced during the night and controls more than a third of Kobane,” Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP.
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.
Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged heavy gunfire overnight Tuesday, after days of fighting that has left at least 17 civilians dead and dozens wounded on both sides of the Kashmiri frontier.
Each country blames the other for violating a longstanding cease-fire, and neither has begun a meeting of commanders at the border, the traditional mechanism for de-escalating such standoffs.
Libya’s Islamist militant group Ansar al-Shariah has declared an “Islamic emirate” in the eastern city of Derna and pledged allegiance to Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), according to media reports coming out from the North African Country.
A video posted on YouTube shows a military parade in Derna with militants holding ISIS flags and shouting pro-ISIS ISIS slogans.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said the besieged Syrian-Turkish border town of Kobani is about to fall into jihadist hands, as it’s in the midst of a fierce battle with Islamic State terrorists, numbering around 9,000 heavily-armed fighters.
The next 24 hours could see 5,000 people dead, according to Kurdish intelligence reports. Since the start of the advance toward the city 400 lives have already been lost.
There are strong indications that the Nigerian troops have overrun Michika and Gulak in Madagali Local Government Areas of Adamawa State.
The states had in the past one month been in the hands of the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents.
A black flag used by IS militants flies atop a building on the outskirts of Kobane. (Credit: AFP)
Officials inside the Syrian-Turkish border town of Kobane say it is in serious danger of falling to Islamic State (IS) fighters who have reportedly raised black flags on the eastern side of the town.
IS fighters have been battling Kurdish forces for control of the strategic town for almost three weeks.