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6 Oct 2014

Street fighting rages in Syrian town as Islamic State moves in

Author: admintech | Filed under: World

In this image shot with an extreme telephoto lens and through haze from the outskirts of Suruc at the Turkey-Syria border, men are seen after placing a black banner with white writing over a hilltop at the eastern side of the town of Kobani, Syria, where fighting had ben intensified between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab and its surrounding areas have been under attack since mid-September, with militants capturing dozens of nearby Kurdish villages. The flag is indicating that the jihadists may have regrouped and broken through the Kurdish lines.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)By Daren Butler MURSITPINAR Turkey (Reuters) – Street fighting raged between Kurdish defenders and Islamic State militants who advanced into Kobani on Monday after subjecting the Syrian border town to an assault lasting almost three weeks, residents and fighters said. Islamic State had earlier raised its black flag over a building in the outskirts and forced thousands more of Kobani's mainly Kurdish inhabitants to flee for their lives across the nearby border into Turkey. …

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kurds-vow-fight-last-islamic-state-tightens-grip-090705412.html

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