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October 10, 2014       Share:    

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/10/us-mideast-crisis-idUSKCN0HX0XF20141010

Islamic State Seizes 1/3 of Syrian Town Despite Air Strikes

(Reuters) Daren Butler and Oliver Holmes - "ISIS controls more than a third of Kobani," Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said Thursday as U.S.-led air strikes failed to halt their advance and Turkish forces looked on without intervening. Washington said U.S. forces launched nine air strikes on Thursday against Islamic State militants north and south of Kobani, striking some fighting units and destroying four buildings held by the group. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that Islamic State's advance on Kobani "is a tragedy because it represents the evil of ISIS, but it is not the definition either of the strategy or the full measure of what is happening with response to ISIS....We are only a few weeks into building the coalition. The primary goal of this effort has been to provide the space for Iraq to be able to get its government in place and to begin to push back and to begin to be able to deprive them (Islamic State militants) of their command and control, their supply centers and their training. That is taking place."

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