Shelling Resumes Around Kobani

U.S. officials say coalition jets made eight airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria overnight, six in Kobani, as fighting continued for control of the key border city of Kobani. Kurdish doctors in the city say at least four people have been wounded. Sunday morning saw a brief lull in the militants' shelling of the city, but VOA correspondent Scott Bobb, reporting from the Turkish side of the border, says that by early afternoon mortar and artillery fire was picking up, with...

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