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US aircraft keep up strikes on IS militants near Syrian Kurdistan’s Kobani

October 8, 2014 – AFP – WASHINGTON,— US and coalition aircraft kept up bombing raids on Islamic State jihadists near Kobani in Syrian Kurdistan on Wednesday, carrying out six attacks to help Kurdish fighters defending the Syrian border town, the US military said.

US and allied bombers, fighter jets and robotic drones hit the IS group over a 24 hour period with four strikes south of the town, destroying an armored personnel carrier, three vehicles and an artillery piece, Central Command said in a statement.

A fifth raid southwest of Kobani destroyed an IS armed vehicle and a sixth strike decimated an artillery cannon on the “southern edge” of the town, it said. Redur Xelil, spokesman for the Kurdish militia defending Kobani city the air raids had helped the militia beat back the fighters of Islamic State, which has taken over vast stretches of Syria and Iraq and now threatens a city on Turkey’s doorstep, advancing into its eastern outskirts Monday.