Kurdish fighters-ISIL militants clash in Kobani
Fierce clashes continue unabated between Kurdish forces and Takfiri ISIL militants in Syria’s northern town of Kobani, which has been under siege by ISIL for nearly two months.
On Saturday, Kurdish fighters advanced against ISIL terrorists in some parts of Kobani and gained more ground following clashes with the extremists.”Our fighters are focusing on advancing in areas towards the center of the town, and hopefully in the coming days, we will be able to announce larger advances,” Idriss Nassan, a senior Kurdish official in Kobani, said.
At least 13 ISIL militants and six Kurdish fighters were killed in the fighting, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The UK-based group also added that two civilians lost their lives in ISIL shelling on a refugee camp in the western part of the town.
Syrian Kurdish forces backed by Iraqi Peshmerga fighters have been fighting to drive the ISIL terrorists out of the border town, most of whose residents have escaped.
Around 150 Peshmerga forces, armed with heavy weaponry, including anti-aircraft machine guns and mobile rocket launchers, entered Kobani in over a dozen trucks and jeeps last Friday from Turkey to join the anti-ISIL fight.
Referring to Turkey’s role in the fight against Kobani, Mimi al-Laham, a political commentator form Australia, told Press TV that ISIL commanders believe turkey is on their side, and US officials also confirm this.
“The United States has becoming more and more open about the fact that Turkey has been helping ISIS.”
Kobani and its surroundings have been under attack since mid-September, with the ISIL militants capturing dozens of nearby Kurdish villages and killing hundreds of people. More than 200,000 people have also fled across the border into Turkey.
Also on Saturday, the so-called US-led coalition forces conducted airstrikes against ISIL leaders near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
According to unconfirmed reports published by Saudi newspaper Al Arabiya, ISIL leader Ibrahim al-Samarrai, also known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was “critically wounded,” and several other senior leaders were killed in the attack.
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