ISIS fighters entered the besieged Syrian Kurdish city of Kobani, a Kurdish fighter said Friday, setting the stage for a vicious street-to-street battle in the shadow of Turkey's border. Alan Minbic, a fighter with the Kurdish People's Protection Unit, or YPG, told CNN that ISIS now controls the southwest corner of the city, known in Arabic as Ayn al-Arab. However, there were conflicting reports. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based monitoring group, said it did not believe that ISIS was in the city itself based on information from more than a dozen sources in Kobani. On Friday, ISIS released a short video showing the apparent beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning. In the same video, the group threatens the life of another hostage, American aid worker Peter Kassig.
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Small arms fire can be heard from southwest Kobani, as east is bombarded
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ISIS fighters have entered the Syrian Kurdish city, a Kurdish fighter says
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Turkish PM says Turkey will do whatever it can to prevent the fall of Kobani
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Turkey has authorized military action in Iraq and Syria, and Australia in Iraq
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The fighting has only intensified in the region in recent days, with @placeholder nearly surrounding Kobani, not far from Turkey's border.
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A sustained bombardment by ISIS rained down, particularly on the eastern side of @placeholder, perhaps the heaviest seen in days.
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The Prime Minister submitted a motion declaring that @placeholder was seriously threatened by the chaos in Syria and Iraq.
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@placeholder must be disrupted and degraded, he said, and "it is absolutely in Australia's national interests that this mission go ahead."
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"Yes, it is a combat deployment, but it is an essentially humanitarian mission to protect the people of Iraq and ultimately the people of Australia from the murderous rage of the @placeholder death cult," he said.