In Kobane, fighting continues despite airstrikes

The Battle of Kobane between Kurdish fighters and jihadists of the Islamic state (EI) continues, a few kilometers from the Turkish border, while the international community struggles to coordinate to prevent the fall of the Syrian city with a Kurdish majority.
Equipped with heavy weapons and tanks, jihadists have entered some new areas of the city, Thursday, Oct. 9, after being pushed back yesterday. "Civilians may have been killed because there is intense competition," said Asya Abdullah, vice-president of the Democratic Union Party (DUP), the main Kurdish organization involved in defending Kobané.

The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (OSDH) confirms the information, citing a suicide truck bombing in the area. It added that jihadists have benefited from the arrival of reinforcements from the Syrian province of Rakka, their rear base. Evidence that air strikes by the coalition around the United States fail to push the jihadists, or even cut off their supply lines.

James Kirby, spokesman for the Pentagon has acknowledged Wednesday that "air strikes only n ['would] not save the city from Kobane"