More airstrikes on IS targets in Kobani
Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, has been facing an onslaught from three sides since last month, forcing nearly 130,000 to flee to Turkey.
US and Arab allies again struck Islamic State strongholds near Kobani, a Syrian border city on the brink of falling to the militants.
Aircraft from the US and United Arab Emirates carried out six strikes over Tuesday and Wednesday near the besieged town. The attacks were in addition to five strikes the day before.
Late Wednesday, officials announced that US and Jordanian aircraft conducted eight more strikes near Kobani, destroying five Islamic State armed vehicles, a supply depot, a command and control compound, a logistics compound and eight occupied barracks. A ninth barracks was damaged.
Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, has been facing an onslaught from three sides since last month, forcing nearly 130,000, most of them Kurdish Syrians, to flee to neighboring Turkey.
The area has been one of the most active fronts in Syria in recent days. The secular Kurdish militia, known as the Popular Protection Units, are defending the town against militants of the Islamic State, a radical Sunni militia.
Taking Kobani would mark a symbolic victory for the Islamic State, which controls vast areas of land across northern Syria and northern and western Iraq from its declared capital of Raqqah in Syria.
