Damascus: Twenty one Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in US-led airstrikes against the Sunni radical group’s positions in the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobane on the Syrian-Turkish border, a monitoring group said Friday.
An IS commander and a Danish IS fighter were among those killed, Xinhua reported citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The US-led anti-terror coalition has recently focused its strikes against the IS positions in Kobane, also known as Ayn al-Arab, to keep the group from capturing that strategic city on the Syrian-Turkish border. The Turkish government has also allowed Iraqi Peshmerga forces and Turkey-loyal Syrian rebels to cross into Kobane, Syria’s largest Kurdish enclave, via Turkey to join the fight against the IS there. (IANS)
