Coalition Airstrikes Hit Islamic State Positions In Kobane But The City Is Expected To Fall

Coalition Air Attacks Target ISIL In Kobane -- Al Jazeera

Strikes hit centre of Syrian city, as ISIL fighters penetrate for the first time, sparking street-to-street fighting.

Fresh air strikes by the US-led coalition have hit positions held by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the southwest of the key Syrian border city of Kobane, also known as Ayn al-Arab.

Tuesday's strikes came a day after ISIL fighters pushed into Kobane, seizing three districts in the city's east and raising the group's black flags after fierce street battles with its Syrian-Kurdish defenders.

Al Jazeera's Yilmaz Akinci, reporting from the Turkish border near Kobane on Tuesday, said that coalition air strikes had hit the centre of the city.

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