(12 Oct 2014) Black smoke billowed over Kobani on Sunday following a US-led coalition airstrike aimed at repelling the Islamic State group, which is advancing on the town from two sides.
The battle for Kobani is still raging despite more than two weeks of airstrikes by the US-led coalition targeting militants in and around the town.
The strikes, which are aimed at rolling back the militants' gains, appear to have done little to blunt their onslaught on Kobani, which began in mid-September.
Syrian activists and Kurdish officials said on Saturday that Islamic State militants were advancing and pushing in from two sides.
The Syrian Kurdish border town is the latest focus of the Islamic State group, which has rampaged across northern Syria, and western and northern Iraq, since the summer.
Capturing Kobani, also known by its Arabic name of Ayn Arab, would give the group a direct link between its positions in the Syrian province of Aleppo and its stronghold of Raqqa, to the east.
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