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Fighting intensifies in Kobane
Kurdish fighters were engaged in fierce gun battles with Islamic State (IS) in the Syrian border town of Kobane, as US-led coalition air strikes continued on Wednesday.
- Six air strikes destroy IS weaponry around Kobane
- Jihadists withdrew from some parts of Kobane
Kobane: Kurdish fighters were engaged in fierce gun battles with Islamic State (IS) in the Syrian border town of Kobane, as US-led coalition air strikes continued on Wednesday.
A BBC correspondent near the fighting says dozens of weapons are firing, with regular grenade explosions. In its latest report, the US Central Command said six air strikes had destroyed IS weaponry around Kobane.
The UN envoy for Syria has urged the international community to act now to prevent IS from seizing the key town. Staffan de Mistura said that the fall of Kobane would be "a massacre and a humanitarian tragedy".
Seizing the entire town would give the IS jihadists full control of a long stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border, which has been a primary route for foreign fighters getting into Syria, as well as allowing IS to traffic oil from oilfields it has captured.
Two days after fighters from Islamic State entered Kobane, a battle is raging for the town's eastern streets.
We reached the border, within a few hundred yards of the fighting, and I have rarely heard anything quite like it. At times, it seems dozens of weapons are firing at once, and there are regular grenade explosions too.
Thick black smoke is rising from buildings on fire. US-led coalition air strikes have been concentrated on the western reaches of the city, where the IS advance seems to have been halted. Jets can still be heard flying overhead.
Jihadists withdrew from some parts of the embattled Syrian town of Kobane overnight after air strikes by a US-led coalition, a monitor group said.
(Inputs from BBC)
