The Battle For Kobani -- News Updates October 14, 2014

The Black Flag Is Torn Down: US Airstrikes Help Kurdish Fighters Scale Hill Outside Battle-Torn Town Of Kobane To Remove Sinister ISIS Flag That Had Flown Above Them For A Week -- Daily Mail

* Islamic State militants show hastily abandoned Kurdish trenches in Kobane
* Comes as ISIS push the Kurdish resistance ever deeper into city centre
* Despite ISIS advances, Kurdish fighters claim to have recaptured key hill
* Tall Shair hill-top in west Kobane was seized by ISIS militants 10 days ago
* News comes as Turkey contradicts U.S. officials by denying it has granted America permission to use its military bases for airstrikes on the terrorists

The sinister black flag of Islamic State was torn down from a Kobani hill today in a symbolic blow against the jihadis.

Kurdish fighters captured the strategic hill of Tel Shair and pulled down the flag that had been fluttering for more than a week.

It followed a sustained stepping up of the U.S.-led airstrikes, with locals counting more than 30 bombs dropped on jihadi positions in the past 24 hours.

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The Battle For Kobani -- News Updates October 14, 2014

Kurdish fighters retake strategic Kobani hill -- Irish Times
Activists: Kurds halt ISIL advance in Kobani -- USA Today/AP
Islamic State Deploys Suicide Attackers in Kobani, Monitors Say -- WSJ
Anger as wounded Syria Kurds die stranded at Turkish border -- Reuters
Kobani Locals Deny Receiving Military Aid From Iraqi Kurds -- RIA Novosti
U.S.-Led Forces Launch 21 Airstrikes to Halt ISIS Near Kobani -- NBC
US military: American-led forces conduct 21 airstrikes near Syrian border town -- Jerusalem Post
U.S.-led forces conduct 21 airstrikes near Kobani, Syria -U.S. military -- Reuters
Airstrikes Hit Jihadi Targets in Syria -- ABC News/AP
US-led forces conduct 21 airstrikes to save Kurdish town from ISIS -- The Hill
Iraqi Kurds Urge Turkey To Let Volunteers Through To Defend Kobani -- Radio Free Europe
Syrian Kurds feel abandoned as Kobani battle rages -- Washington Post/AP
Kurdish town becomes symbolic heart of war against jihadists -- Rana Moussaoui, AFP
Analysis: Battle for Kobani Is Sideshow in Broader ISIS War -- Bill Neely, NBC
Factbox - From Kobani to Kirkuk, Kurds fight for territory -- Reuters