Kurdish fighters remain in battle with the 'Islamic State' (IS), as conflict spreads into southwestern parts of the Syrian town of Kobani. New US-led airstrikes against the IS on Kobani's edges have also been reported, reports GHN based on DW.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday that 'Islamic State' (IS) fighters in the Kurdish Syrian city of Kobani have reached "about 50 meters inside the southwest of the city," which lies close to the Turkey-Syrian border.
"There were clashes overnight. Not heavy but [IS] is going forward from the southwest. They have crossed into Kobani and control some buildings in the city there," said Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Abdulrahman added that a number of buildings in the south and west of the town, including a hospital which was under construction, had been seized by IS fighters.
At least 34 IS jihadists and 16 Kurdish fighters are reported to have been killed in Kobani during Monday's fighting.