Kurdish fighters are
engaged in fierce gun battles with Islamic State (IS) in the Syrian
border town of Kobane, as US-led coalition air
strikes continue.In its latest report, the US Central Command said six air strikes had destroyed IS weaponry around Kobane.
An official inside Kobane said the Kurdish forces were now pushing back the Islamic State fighters.
Seizing Kobane would give the IS jihadists full control of a long stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border.
This has been a primary route for foreign fighters getting into Syria, as well as allowing IS to traffic oil from oilfields it has captured.
Three weeks of fighting over Kobane has cost the lives of 400 people, and forced more than 160,000 Syrians to flee across the border to Turkey.
Two days after fighters from Islamic State entered Kobane, a battle is raging for the town's eastern streets.
We reached the border, within a few hundred yards of the fighting, and I have rarely heard anything quite like it.
At times, it seems dozens of weapons are firing at once, and there are regular grenade explosions too. Thick black smoke is rising from buildings on fire.
US-led coalition air strikes have been concentrated on the western reaches of the city, where the IS advance seems to have been halted.
Jets can still be heard flying overhead.
Source:BBC
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