Tuesday, November 11, 2014

The Battle For Kobani -- News Updates November 11, 2014



More Than 1,000 Killed In bBttle For Syria's Kobane: Monitor -- Hurriyet Daily News/AFP

More than 1,000 people, mostly jihadists, have been killed in Kobane since the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) launched an offensive on the Syrian town nearly two months ago, a monitor said Nov. 9.

ISIL jihadists, who proclaimed a "caliphate" in June straddling territory captured in Iraq and Syria, launched their offensive for the town - also known as Ain al-Arab - in mid-September.

"At least 1,013 people have been killed in fighting in Ain al-Arab from the beginning of the offensive till last night," said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman.

Militants from the Sunni extremist ISIL group accounted for 609 of those killed in the Kurdish town on the Turkish border, he said.

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The Battle For Kobani -- News Updates November 11, 2014

Fighting rages in southern Kobane -- Rudaw
Syria Kurds 'recapture' areas of Kobane from IS -- AFP
Kurds reportedly make advances in Kobani -- AlBawaba
Kurds gain ground but not in control in Kobani -- World Bulletin
Engel in Kobani: Women Are on the Front Lines Against ISIS -- NBC
Syrian Islamic rebel leader brands Kobane’s Kurdish defenders as enemies -- Rudaw
Inside Kobane: Eyewitness account in besieged Kurdish city -- BBC
The Battle for Kobane -- Vocativ
Video: The battle to rescue Kobane’s wounded -- France 24
On the front-line in the battle for Kobane: Amazing pictures of the life-or-death struggle for Syrian border town show Kurdish fighters battling through rubble-strewn streets against ISIS extremists -- Daily Mail

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