Breaking News: Syrian Kurds Launch Operation Against IS.

Fighting is continuing around the Syrian border town of Kobane, with reports of Kurdish forces launching an operation against

Islamic State (IS).
It follows the US-led coalition's most sustained air strikes so far targeting IS positions in the town.
The UN envoy for Syria has urged the international community to act now to prevent IS from seizing the key town.
Staffan de Mistura told the BBC that the fall of Kobane would be "a massacre and a humanitarian tragedy".
Seizing the entire town would give the IS jihadists full control of a long stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border, which has been a primary route for foreign fighters getting into Syria, as well as allowing IS to traffic oil from oilfields it has captured.

Turkey has come under increasing pressure to do more to help the Kurdish forces fighting in Kobane.
At least 12 people were killed in protests by Kurds in Turkey on Tuesday over the lack of Turkish military support.
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.
Battle in the east Fierce clashes were reported in eastern Kobane on Wednesday, as IS fighters launched an offensive to retake areas it lost control of as a result of coalition air strikes, the head of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.
Rami Abdel Rahman, quoted by AFP, said IS had earlier retreated from parts of the eastern and south-western edges of the town and was a no longer present on the western front. 

It comes amid reports of a fresh coalition air strike near Kobane on Wednesday, targeting IS positions on an eastern hill.
Until now, IS has besieged the town on three fronts to the south, south-east and south-west.
Late on Tuesday, Kurdish fighters told the BBC's Paul Adams on the Turkey-Syria border that they were launching operations against fighters loyal to IS, who began an assault on the town in September.
Our correspondent says this suggests they feel emboldened a day after witnessing coalition air strikes make a difference for the first time - bringing the IS advance to a juddering halt.
Source:BBC