Battle for Syrian border town rages on

Islamic State fighters backed by tanks and artillery have pushed into an embattled Syrian town on the border with Turkey, sparking heavy street battles with the town’s Kurdish defenders.

Battle for Syrian border town rages on

Islamic State fighters backed by tanks and artillery have pushed into an embattled Syrian town on the border with Turkey, sparking heavy street battles with the town’s Kurdish defenders.

Hours after the militants raised two of their Islamic State (IS) group’s black flags on the outskirts of Kobani, they punctured the Kurdish front lines and advanced into the town itself, the Local Co-ordination Committees activist collective and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

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