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IS desperate to seize Kobane
The Islamic State group poured in reinforcements on Sunday for its nearly month-long siege of Kobane as the Syrian town\'s Kurdish defenders kept up their high-profile resistance.
Fighters from other areas are being sent to the Syrian town
- 36 IS militants killed on Saturday
- British soldiers train Kurd fighters
Beirut: The Islamic State group poured in reinforcements on Sunday for its nearly month-long siege of Kobane as the Syrian town's Kurdish defenders kept up their high-profile resistance.
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IS has sustained serious losses in the battle for the town despite their superior armour, with at least 36 of its fighters killed on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. With the world's press massed just across the nearby border with Turkey, the fight for the town has become one the jihadists cannot afford to lose, the Britain-based monitoring group said.
" It's a decisive battle for them," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP. " If they don't pull it off, it will damage their image among jihadists around the world."
Abdel Rahman said that IS was sending additional fighters from other areas it controls in Syria, including its Euphrates Valley stronghold of Raqa, after its Friday capture of the Kurdish command headquarters in Kobane failed to deliver a decisive blow."They are sending fighters without much combat experience," said Abdel Rahman, whose group has a wide network of sources inside Syria. "They are attacking on multiple fronts but they keep being repulsed, then countering and being pushed back again."
US military planes dropped ammunition, food and water Friday and Saturday to Iraqi troops under pressure from IS in north Iraq, the US Central Command said.
Meanwhile British soldiers are in Iraq training the Kurdish peshmerga forces battling Islamic State jihadists, the Ministry of Defence in London said. A "small, specialist team" is operating in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, training peshmerga how to use the heavy machine guns Britain supplied in September.
Military chiefs from the 21 countries already committed to the coalition are to meet in Washington this week to discuss strategy, Pentagon officials said.
