Fighters of the Islamic State (IS) shelled the Syrian city of Kobane today, where they continue to fight with the Kurds, activists and Kurdish officials announced today.
Idris Nasan, a senior Kurdish official in Kobane, specified that today's fighting was concentrated in the eastern and southern areas on the edge of the city known as Ain Arab.
In the statement of the Syrian NGO Observatory for Human Rights, it is added that the southern parts of the city are surrounded on three sides by IS fighters.
Islamic State launched an offensive on Kobane in mid-September, kidnapping dozens of residents before entering parts of the city.
On Friday, the IS operation to capture Kobane was stopped.
Earlier this week, US Central Command said US military aircraft had carried out 135 airstrikes on militant positions in and around Kobane, killing hundreds of IS fighters.
Kurds occupied Zumar
Kurdish security forces today recaptured the town of Zumar and several nearby villages, in northern Iraq, which were under the control of Islamic State (IS) extremists, local security officials announced.
Kurdish fighters in Iraq, the Peshmerga, advanced early this morning from five directions after airstrikes by coalition forces on IS positions, a Kurdish intelligence official said, as reported by Reuters.
The Kurdish forces encountered fierce resistance, but eventually overcame it.
The offensive of IS extremists, who captured large parts of northern and western Iraq and neighboring Syria in June, was met with fierce criticism from the international community.
Airstrikes by US-led coalition forces began in August in support of local forces on the ground seeking to push back the jihadists.
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