IS Lifting Flag In Town Close To Turkey Border
Islamic State militants have apparently captured part of a town close to the Syrian border with Turkey after days of fierce fighting.
The extremist group raised its black flag on a building on the eastern side of Kobani, where Kurdish fighters have been involved in clashes after a nearly three-week siege of the town, according to Reuters.
Idris Nahsen, a Kobani official, had said the militants were less than a mile from the town, which was hit by rockets and mortars during fighting over the weekend.
One shell was fired from inside Syria and hit a house in the Turkish village of Buyuk Kendirci, injuring four people.
IS began its advance on Kobani on 16 September, forcing around 186,000 people to flee across the border into Turkey.
It has seized swathes of Syria and Iraq after declaring an Islamic caliphate in June, including a long stretch of the Syria-Turkey border.
The Turkish parliament authorised involvement in the campaign against IS last week, but no military operations have been announced.
It comes after a masked IS militant was filmed murdering British aid worker Alan Henning and threatening US hostage Peter Kassig in a video released on Friday.
The 47-year-old former taxi driver, from Eccles in Greater Manchester, was captured as he drove an ambulance full of aid supplies into Syria on 27 December last year.
The Ministry of Defence said two Tornado fighters had dropped Paveway bombs on IS targets near Ramadi, in Iraq, on Sunday night.
The RAF jets, based in Akrotiri, Cyprus, attacked IS forces who were shooting at Iraqi troops from a building near the city.
A leader from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a Taliban ally that has been based in Pakistan's tribal belt since 2001, has declared its support for IS.
The group was set up in the 1990s and is listed as a terrorist group by the US.
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