BEIRUT, Nov 30 (AFP): Jihadists from the Islamic State group battling for control of the Syrian border town Kobane have suffered some of their heaviest losses yet in 24 hours of clashes and US-led strikes.
At least 50 jihadists were killed in the embattled town, in suicide bomb attacks, clashes with Kobane's Kurdish defenders and the air strikes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.
The Britain-based monitor also reported that the US-led coalition battling the IS group hit at least 30 targets in and around Raqa, the jihadists' de facto capital.
There were no immediate details of a toll in the Raqa strikes, which the Observatory said was one of the larger waves of raids by the coalition since it began its campaign in Syria in September.
The deaths in Kobane came on Saturday after IS jihadists launched an unprecedented attack against the border crossing separating the Syrian Kurdish town from Turkey.
Kurdish officials and the Observatory alleged the attack was launched from Turkish soil, a claim dismissed by the Turkey army as "lies."
The Observatory said at least five IS jihadists were killed in suicide bombings in Kobane, including two in the attacks on the border.
Another 11 were killed in clashes by the border that erupted after the double bombing.
There was no breakdown for the remaining IS toll, though the Observatory added that 11 Kurdish fighters and one Syrian rebel backing them were killed in clashes in the town.
IS began advancing on Kobane on September 16, hoping to quickly seize the small border town and secure its grip on a large stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border, followed advances it made in Iraq.
IS jihadists sustain heavy losses in Syria\\\'s Kobane
FE Team | Published: December 01, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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