The Kurdish fighters in Syria, will air support: The US-led coalition attacked positions of the IS militias around the border town of Ain al-Arab (Kobani).
The US-led coalition against the terrorist organization “Islamic State” has expanded their attacks to areas in northern Syria. On Wednesday morning, fighter jets bombed targets near the town of Ain al-Arab, which is called by its Kurdish population Kobani.
In the past week IS-fighters had launched a lightning attack on the area near the Turkish border and more than 140,000 Kurds forced to flee to Turkey. According to eyewitnesses now have several fighter jets targets 30 kilometers west of the city attacked. The aircraft had penetrated from Turkish airspace, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is in contact with residents of the area. Whether it is US-Jets or machine to another Air Force, was initially unclear.
Syria Air Attacks:Heavy fighting between IS and Kurds
At the bottom of the struggles between IS militias and Kurdish fighters around Ain al-Arab keep continuing. According to the local politician Idris Nassan the jihadists have moved to the east and west up to 15 kilometers of the city. In the south they are even just ten kilometers from the border town.
The Kurdish people’s defense units (YPG), allied with the PKK in Turkey, were hardly withstand the IS-rise in the area. The radical Islamists translated, among others, mortar shells. The YPG spokesman Redur Khalil said: “The IS-fighters have not been withdrawn from their positions.”
The United States and its Arab allies had begun on Tuesday to extend the attacks on the IS on targets in Syria. The government in Damascus was informed shortly before the air strikes. On the inserts according to the Pentagon also Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are involved.
The air strikes on Tuesday also a senior member of the allied with al-Qaida Nusra front to have been killed. This is reported via multiple Twitter accounts, which are in connection with the terrorist group. In the dead it will be to Abu Yousef al-Turki. The Turk sat for years in prison because he was said to be responsible for attacks in Istanbul in 2003.
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