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Jihadists press gains in Syria, Iraq
Jihadists pushed to seize Syria`s Kobane and an Iraqi town close to Baghdad on Wednesday as Washington warned of a long fight against the steadily advancing Islamic State group.
- There are not quick fixes involved. We`re still at the early stages, Obama to allies
- US air war has a name: 'Operation Inherent Resolve'
Mursitpinar: Jihadists pushed to seize Syria`s Kobane and an Iraqi town close to Baghdad on Wednesday as Washington warned of a long fight against the steadily advancing Islamic State group.
In the town of Kobane on the Turkish border, the jihadists have been holding out in fighting with Kurdish militia despite stepped-up US-led air strikes, and calls have been growing for Turkey to take action.
In Iraq, IS militants were closing on the town of Amriyat al-Fallujah, one of the last still controlled by the government in the troubled Anbar province and only 35 kilometres (20 miles) from Baghdad. With US military officials warning that IS had the "tactical momentum", President Barack Obama told Western and Arab allies fighting IS that they are facing a "long-term campaign".
"There are not quick fixes involved. We`re still at the early stages," Obama said in Washington after meeting senior commanders from more than 20 allies involved in the campaign. "As with any military effort, there will be days of progress and there are going to be periods of setback," he added.Obama expressed special concern for Kobane, which has become a crucial symbolic battleground in the fight against IS, and about halting the IS advance in Iraq`s western Anbar province.Fighting continued to rage for Kobane early Wednesday, with clashes concentrated in the east of the town where IS fighters established a stronghold after piercing its defences last week.An AFP reporter across the border in Turkey reported at least four fresh US-led air strikes early Wednesday, after the coalition said it had hit the jihadists in Kobane with 21 raids on Monday and Tuesday alone. A monitoring group said overnight fighting had concentrated on the former Kurdish military headquarters in northern Kobane which IS seized on Friday . After more than two months of air strikes, American commanders have finally decided on a name for the US-led war on Islamic State jihadists -- "Operation Inherent Resolve." The decision was taken "a few days ago" by the chiefs of all the armed services, said Colonel Ed Thomas, spokesman for the US military's top officer, General Martin Dempsey. "The operation is called 'Operation Inherent Resolve,'" Thomas told reporters. The spokesman offered no explanation as to why the Pentagon chose that name, which had already been cited in media reports as a possible choice that was rejected by some officers.
