Thursday, June 25, 2015

ISIS group launches fresh attack in Syrian border city of Kobane

The Islamic State group launched a two-pronged offensive in northern Syria on Thursday after several setbacks, re-entering the symbolic battleground town of Kobane and seizing parts of the city of Hasakeh.

In southern Syria, an alliance of rebel groups, including Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front, also attacked government-held areas of the city of Daraa.

Analysts said the surprise IS assaults were aimed at diverting Kurdish forces after they scored a series of victories and advanced on the jihadists' Syrian stronghold of Raqa.

Kobane, on the border with Turkey, became an important symbol in the battle against IS after the group launched a bid to take it last year.

Kurdish forces backed by US-led air strikes waged a four-month battle to repel the group, finally securing the town in January.

But on Thursday, the jihadists returned, detonating a suicide car bomb near the border crossing adjacent to Kobane as they launched an assault.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said at least 12 civilians and Kurdish fighters were killed in the car bomb and subsequent fighting in the centre of the town, along with eight IS militants.

A few hours later, two more car bombs detonated near the border, but there were no immediate details on casualties.

Villagers executed

IS forces also entered a Kurdish village some 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Kobane on Thursday morning, executing at least 23 residents, among them women and children, the Observatory said.

The jihadists withdrew from Barkh Butan after US-led coalition strikes on the outskirts of the village and the arrival of Kurdish forces, the monitor said....http://www.france24.com/en/20150625-islamic-state-group-attack-kobane-syria-kurds-border

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  1. A Syrian opposition group has claimed that 50 people – including regime soldiers and Daesh militants – have died in fighting in the northeastern city of al-Hasakah...

    The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a statement that the casualties occurred as Daesh attacked regime-held southern regions of the city early Thursday. The SNHR said Daesh took control of some areas.

    " Daesh mounted a car bomb attack on the areas held by [President Bashar al-] Assad regime and armed Shabiha militia. Thirty from the regime and 20 fromDaesh were killed in the fighting between the two," the statement read.

    The SNHR added that Daesh is advancing towards the city center and has reached the homicide bureau of the city's police department as well as the city stadium, prompting local people in the city's south to leave their homes for safer areas.........http://www.aa.com.tr/en/headline/544120--50-killed-in-daesh-regime-clashes-in-northern-syria

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  2. An attack by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters on the Syrian town of Kobane and a nearby village has so far killed at least 146 civilians, the second-biggest massacre by the hardline group in the country, a conflict monitor said on Friday...

    Islamic State entered Kobane at the Turkish border on Thursday and clashes have continued with Kurdish YPG forces in the town, also known as Ayn al-Arab, said Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

    Abdulrahman, who tracks the conflict using sources on the ground, said it was the biggest single massacre of civilians by Islamic State since the killing of hundreds of members of the Sunni Muslim tribe Sheitaat tribe in eastern Syria last year.
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    alarabiya.net

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