ISIL tightens grip on Kobani

ISIL has further tightened its stranglehold on the Syrian town of Kobani – a monitoring group says – as Turkish tanks on the border look on without intervening.It is infuriating for Kurds who want more than just US-led coalition air strikes on the extremists who now control at least 40 per cent of Kobani, including key Kurdish administrative buildings – according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

As Kurds at the border town of Surac held a funeral for ten kinsmen killed in the fighting, UN envoy Staffan de Mistura backed Kurdish calls for volunteers to be allowed into Syria to defend Kobani from ISIL.But one of the Kurdish mourners, Sari Ozcelik, said Turkey was stopping that from happening,Euro 

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