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Friday, October 3, 2014

Kurds call to arms as Islamic State closes in on Syrian town

Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Kobani, seen from near the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc By Ayla Jean Yackley and Tom Perry SURUC Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) - The main Kurdish armed group in Syria called on its kinsmen across the region to help it stop a massacre in the Syrian town of Kobani as Islamic State militants armed with tanks edged closer on its outskirts and pummelled it with artillery fire. Islamic State's battlefield gains in recent months have come as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces have focussed on other rebel groups. On Friday the army advanced on the city of Aleppo further west, threatening rebel supply lines in a potentially major reversal. U.S. ...




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