Kurdish fighters defending the key Syrian border city of Kobani are dangerously outmatched as ISIS advances, a top United Nations official said Tuesday, calling for the international community to step in. "They have been defending themselves with great courage. But they are now very close to not being able to do so. They are fighting with normal weapons, whereas the ISIS has got tanks and mortars," Staffan de Mistura, the U.N. special envoy for Syria, said in a statement. "The international community needs to defend them. The international community cannot sustain another city falling under ISIS." Were Kobani to fall, ISIS would control a complete swath of land between its self-declared capital of Raqqa, Syria, and Turkey -- a stretch of more than 100 kilometers (62 miles).
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Canada will send fighter jets to target ISIS in Iraq
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U.N. envoy: "The international community cannot sustain another city falling"
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State Department: U.S. goal is preventing ISIS "from gaining a safe haven"
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Turkish President Erdogan warns Kobani is about to fall to ISIS
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Outnumbered and outgunned by ISIS, local fighters trying to defend the Kurdish-dominated city have tried to flee into @placeholder.
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And hours after U.S. airstrikes targeting @placeholder struck near Kobani overnight, the city's future was far from certain.
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Stopping ISIS from taking over cities, towns and other territory in Syria isn't the focus of U.S. efforts, a senior administration official and a @placeholder official told CNN.
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At a briefing, a State Department spokeswoman faced persistent questions over whether saving the city was a @placeholder priority.
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The U.S. goal, she said, is "a deliberate, well thought-out campaign in @placeholder" to disrupt ISIS command and control, destroy the group's infrastructure and attack sources of fuel and financing for ISIS.
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There were another four strikes elsewhere in @placeholder and four in Iraq.
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"Finally, they are hitting the right places," one local fighter against @placeholder said after the airstrikes near Kobani, which is close to  the Turkish border and key to ISIS' effort to extend its terrain.
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"Finally, they are hitting the right places," one local fighter against ISIS said after the airstrikes near Kobani, which is close to  the Turkish border and key to @placeholder' effort to extend its terrain.
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-- One southeast of Kobani destroyed an @placeholder armed vehicle carrying anti-aircraft artillery
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More than 400 people have been killed in the fight for @placeholder since mid-September, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.