Fierce Shelling Resumes Around Kobani

The fiercest fighting in days shook the Syrian border town of Kobani overnight as Islamic State militants attacked Kurdish fighters with mortars and car bombs, sources in the town and a monitoring group said on Sunday. Islamic State militants fired 44 mortars at Kurdish parts of the town on Saturday, with some of the shells falling inside the nearby Turkish border, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The group said four more mortars were fired on...

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