The New York Times reports ISIS has intensified its attacks on Kobani as the US airstrikes prove ineffective and as the Turkish military just watches the pending catastrophe: The Islamic State is pouring reinforcements into the besieged Syrian city of Kobani, underscoring its goal to seize that Kurdish enclave near the Turkish border and deal a significant setback to the United States-led air campaign, American officials said Friday. The rush of heavily armed Islamic State fighters toward Kobani from multiple directions has provided allied warplanes with an array of tanks, artillery and armed vehicles to strike easily from the air, a senior Pentagon official said. Elsewhere in Syria and Iraq, Islamic State fighters have in recent days dispersed to avoid the American attacks.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:21:34 +0000
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