[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihadist group carried out a series of air strikes overnight in the embattled Syrian town of Kobane, a monitor and activists said Sunday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported intensifying festivities between Kurdish fighters defending Kobane and ISIS jihadists in the south of the town, which lies on the Turkish border.
Kurdish activist and Kobane resident Mustefa Ebdi reported at least seven international air strikes overnight.
He said the kabooms could be heard 20 kilometers from Kobane, and shook the cars of people with him on the border between Turkey and Syria.
In southern Kobane, meanwhile, the Britannia-based Observatory said fierce festivities underway for the past three days were continuing with reports of injuries on both sides.
The group said Kurdish YPG forces and Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters were also shelling ISIS positions during the festivities.
Ebdi also reported the festivities, saying the situation in Kobane "has progressed from defense to attack because of the air raids and the support the peshmerga and the (Arab rebel) Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
are giving the YPG fighters."
"The Kurdish fighters are advancing slowly because of the mines laid by IS. They are trying to retake territory," he said.
The Islamic State began advancing on Kobane two months ago, hoping to seize the small Kurdish town and cement their grip over a large stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border.
But U.S.-led air strikes, along with fierce fighting by YPG troops backed by around 150 Iraqi peshmerga, have so far prevented ISIS from overrunning the town completely.
The Observatory said Sunday that the toll since fighting began had risen to 1,153, including 27 civilians, 398 Kurdish YPG fighters, 16 non-Kurdish rebels backing the YPG and 712 ISIS fighters.