US-led planes strike Syrian town amid Kurdish battle with IS
Planes believed to have been sent by the US-led coalition have struck positions held by Islamic State militants near a Syrian border town that beleaguered Kurdish forces have been struggling to defend.
The airstrikes began late yesterday and came as Kurdish forces pushed Islamic State militants out of the eastern part of Kobani, where the jihadists had raised their black flag over buildings, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
