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Click & Close Ads SANLIURFA, Turkey — The Islamic State launched a bloody assault against the Kurdish Syrian town of Kobane on Thursday, five months after the militants were driven from the area by intense U.S. airstrikes. An estimated 32 assailants driving five cars penetrated Kurdish defenses shortly before dawn, detonated a suicide bomb and then fanned out in an apparent attempt to blast their way into town, according to Redur Xelil, a spokesman for the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG, which has controlled Kobane since the Islamic State was driven out. Kurdish fighters were still battling the militants late into the morning, and dozens of people, including women and children, have been killed or wounded, Xelil said. Turkey said 41 injured civilians had been permitted to cross the normally closed border to receive treatment in Turkish hospitals. The attack on Kobane follows a wave of defeats inflicted on the Islamic State in recent days by a joint Kurdish-Syrian rebel force. The capture last week of the border town of Tal Abyad, the militants’ most important conduit for trade and foreign fighters, has been followed in recent days by advances south toward the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa. Click & Close Ads
Click & Close Ads The assault represents the first setback for Kurdish forces in Kobane since the Islamic State first launched an offensive to capture the town last September, triggering the most intense U.S. airstrikes in the fight against Islamic State so far. Kobane became a symbol of both Kurdish and American determination to confront the Islamic State, and U.S. officials regularly point to the victory there as an example of the progress that can be made when determined ground forces are backed by concerted U.S. air power. Kurdish activists posting on social media said at least two U.S. strikes were launched in the vicinity of the town after the assault got underway, but the reports could not be independently confirmed. The location of the attack, on the northern edge of Kobane adjoining the Turkish border, drew immediate allegations of Turkish involvement from Kurdish activists, who have long accused Turkey of covertly helping the Islamic State in order to prevent Kurds from consolidating control over territory adjoining Turkey. Click & Close Ads
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