Kurdish forces stop ISIS attack in Kobane

05-12-2014
Rudaw
Tags: Kobane Kobani YPG Peshmerga
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KOBANE BORDER—Islamist militants attacked the Kurdish forces in Kobane on three fronts Friday morning, a commander told Rudaw, and the Kurds responded with heavy fire, stopping the attack and killing several militants.

“The militants first began by shelling the Kurdish areas then they began the ground assault,” Peshmerga Captain Sherwan Muhammad said.

Cpt. Muhammad said that the Peshmerga and Peoples Protection Units (YPG) responded to the Islamic State (ISIS) attacks and killed seven militants.

Coalition fighter jets also came to the support of the Kurdish fighters, he said, bombing the ISIS positions in and around the city.

 

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