By Ayla Jean Yackley and Alexander Dziadosz SURUC Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State insurgents tightened their grip on a Syrian border town on Thursday despite coalition air strikes, sending thousands more Kurdish refugees into Turkey and dragging Ankara deeper into the conflict. Kurdish militants warned that peace talks with the Turkish state would come to an end if the Islamist insurgents were allowed to carry out a massacre in the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobani, pressuring Ankara to act. …

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/islamic-state-presses-assault-syrian-border-town-kurds-092052945.html

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