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Monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Monday said that Kurdish fighters battling extremists from Islamic State (IS) were able to gain ground in the Syrian border town Kobane overnight. The town has become a symbolic battleground in the fight against the IS, with the global coalition launching airstrikes almost every day to aid the Kurdish fighters. According to …

Hundreds of Kurds have entered northern Syria from Turkey to battle militants besieging the city of Ain al-Arab, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. “At least 800 Kurdish fighters crossed the Turkish-Syrian border to help their comrades in Ain al-Arab (Kobane in Kurdish), which is under total siege by Islamic State jihadists”, the Observatory’s director Rami Abdel Rahman …