Kurdish forces defending Kobane urged a U.S.-led coalition to escalate air strikes on Islamic State fighters who tightened their grip on the Syrian town at the border with Turkeyon Saturday. A group that monitors the Syrian civil war said the Kurdish forces faced inevitable defeat in Kobane if Turkey did not open its border to let through arms - something Ankara has so far appeared reluctant to do. The U.S.-led coalition escalated air strikes on Islamic State in and around Kobane, also known as Ayn al-Arab, some four days ago. Kurdish forces defending Kobani urged a U.S.-led coalition to escalate air strikes on Islamic State fighters who tightened their grip on the Syrian town at the border with Turkeyon Saturday
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Kurdish forces want even more air strikes on Islamic State fighters in Syrian town
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The U.S. military conducted six airstrikes against Islamic State militants near the besieged Syrian city of Kobane on Friday and Saturday
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The air attacks near Kobane hit an Islamic State fighting position and two small units, damaged a command-and-control facility and destroyed three trucks
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Islamic State has besieged the town to the east, south and west, meaning the @placeholder' only possible supply route is the Turkish border to the north.
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Red tracer gunfire lit up the sky in the eastern sector of the town, much of which has fallen to @placeholder.
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If @placeholder seizes full control of the town - which U.S. officials acknowledge is possible in coming days - it would be able to boast that it has withstood American air power.
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The Kobani crisis has sparked deadly violence in @placeholder, which has a Kurdish population numbering 15 million