KOBANE BORDER—Heavy fighting resumed between Kurdish forces and Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Kobane in the early hours of Saturday, a Peshmerga commander in the city said.
“Fighting has broken out in the south and northeast of the city and heavy weaponry is used in the fight,” Brigadier Toufik Khazyavayi told Rudaw by telephone.
Khazyavayi said coalition fighter jets have also bombarded ISIS positions around the city at least four times today.
“ISIS hasn’t been able to make any advance,” he said. “On the contrary the Peshmerga and Peoples Protection Units (YPG) are moving forward and ISIS is on the retreat.”
YPG commanders say that they now control about 80 percent of the city and that coalition airstrikes have taken their toll on the ISIS militants.
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