Kobane: Islamic State widens attack on border town

Reports indicate that fighting between Islamic State, ISIS militants and Syrian Kurds have spread to the southern district of the town of Kobane on the Turkish border, as US-led air strikes continue.

But fighting in the town was less intense yesterday when ISIS took control of three districts in the east.

Witnesses report of several loud explosions and plumes of smoke from air strikes.
More than 160, thousand Syrians, mainly Kurds, have fled Kobane recently.

A humanitarian mission to evacuate the few thousand civilians left in Kobane continued today.

BBC