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US: Coalition airstrikes killed several hundred of ISIL militants in Syria
[Iran Press TV] The Pentagon has said ISIL still stands the chance of seizing the Syrian town of Kobani despite US-led "We believe that we have killed several hundred ISIL fighters in and around Kobani," Pentagon front man Rear Adm. John Kirby told news hounds in Washington on Wednesday. Kirby also said that most of the people living in Kobani have fled the town with the ISIL snuffies trying to seize the control of the mainly Kurdish town. Despite the intensified US air raids, Kirby said that the city "could still fall, it could very well still fall", calling it a "setback". The United States and its allies carried out nearly two dozen The Pentagon front man added that the ISIL group has explicitly indicated that they want to occupy Kobani hence increasingly sending fighters to the town. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... he noted that US operation in this strategic town is much more extensive, saying as the chances are that other towns and villages "will either fall to ISIL or we may not be able to dislodge them for quite some time." His remarks came as White House front man Josh Earnest said that early evidence showed the US-led air campaign against ISIL was succeeding. "No one has thought that these Posted by: Fred 2014-10-16 |
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