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400 killed in battle for Syria’s Kobane
More than 400 people have been killed in three weeks of fighting between Islamic State group jihadists and Kurdish forces for the Syrian town of Kobane, a monitor said on Tuesday.
- 219 IS jihadists, 173 Kurdish fighters killed since Sept 16
- Fighting in Kobane spreads to south, west: Monitor
- Fresh airstrikes on jihadist positions in Kobane
- Kurds protest against Turkey as IS advances on Kobane
- Turkish Prez says Kobane about to fall, ground troops needed
Beirut/Hague: More than 400 people have been killed in three weeks of fighting between Islamic State group jihadists and Kurdish forces for the Syrian town of Kobane, a monitor said on Tuesday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 412 people, including 219 IS jihadists, 173 Kurdish fighters and affiliated forces and 20 civilians, had been killed since September 16.
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Fighting between Islamic State group jihadists and Kurdish militia in the key Syrian border town of Kobane has spread to new areas in the south and west.
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said street battles were now being fought in the south and west of Kobane, which is also known as Ain al-Arab, after IS jihadists entered it on Tuesday evening.
"They have retreated by a few streets in the eastern areas they seized yesterday, but the fighting has now spread to the south and west of the town," Abdel Rahman said.
He said IS fighters had seized a number of buildings in the south and west of the town, including a hospital under construction on the western outskirts of Kobane.
Abdel Rahman also reported fresh air strikes by the US-led coalition overnight, saying they hit the east and southeastern edges of the town. Meanwhile, Dutch F-16s carried out their first strikes on the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq, the Dutch defence ministry said, with militants possibly killed."Two Dutch F-16s this morning used weapons for the first time in Iraq against the IS terror group. They dropped three bombs on armed IS vehicles that were shooting at (Kurdish) Peshmerga fighters in the north of the country," the statement said.
Kurds across Turkey have vented their anger at the government's lack of military support for the defenders of the Syrian border town of Kobane being attacked by Islamic State militants. Police used tear gas and water cannon as unrest spread to at least six cities.
One protester has been killed. Turkish troops and tanks have lined the border but have not crossed into Syria.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that the Syrian border town of Kobane is on the verge of falling to jihadists, saying a ground operation was needed to defeat the militants. "The terror will not be over... Unless we cooperate for a ground operation," Erdogan said in a televised speech in the eastern city of Gaziantep.
