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Kurds say air strikes push Islamic State back from Kobani

MURSITPINAR - US-led air strikes on Wednesday pushed Islamic State fighters back to the edges of the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobani, which they had appeared set to seize after a three-week assault, Kurdish officials in the town said.

 

The town has become the focus of international attention since the Islamists' advance drove 180,000 of the area's mostly Kurdish inhabitants to flee into adjoining Turkey, which has infuriated its own restive Kurdish minority by refusing to intervene.

 

Islamic State hoisted its black flag on the eastern edge of the town on Monday but, since then, air strikes by a US-led coalition that includes Gulf states opposed to Islamic State have redoubled.

 


פרסום ראשון: 10.08.14, 12:20