Kurds Prevent New ISIL Attack on Kobane

Local Editor

Kurdish militia fought off a fresh assault by the "ISIL" group on a key Syrian town early Monday, after one desperate woman defender carried out a suicide attack against the terrorists.

"ISIL" militants attempted to storm the town of Kobane on the Turkish border from both east and west of a strategic hill to the south, but Kurdish fighters repulsed the attack.

A Syrian Kurdish official inside Kobane said the town had come under heavy bombardment by the extremists and there had been fierce clashes as the Kurdish fighters fought off the assault.

Meanwhile, ISIL militants seized part of Mishtenur Hill, which overlooks Kobane, late on Saturday, but the coalition's air strikes slowed their advance.

The Syrian Kurdish official said ISIL militants were just one kilometer [less than a mile] from the town and that air strikes alone were not enough to stop them.

Idris Nahsen complained there was no coordination between coalition commanders and Kurdish fighters on the ground.

In a sign of the Kurdish defenders' mounting reistsance, a female suicide bomber blew herself up at an ISIL position east of Kobane on Sunday.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website