’ISIL’ Terrorists Suffer Heavy Losses in Syria’s Kobane
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The "ISIL" terrorist group battling for control of the Syrian town of Kobane suffered some of their heaviest losses yet in 24 hours of clashes, monitors said Sunday.
At least 50 extremists were killed in the embattled border town in suicide bombings, clashes with Kobane's Kurdish defenders and air strikes, the so-called "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" said.
Canada, meanwhile, said it was "aware of reports" one of its citizens may have been captured in Kobane, reportedly an "Israeli"-Canadian woman.
An "Israeli "foreign ministry spokesman stated: "We know nothing about it, but are closely monitoring the information."
The Britain-based Observatory, known to be close to the opposition, also said the US-led coalition battling the "ISIL" group hit at least 30 targets in and around Raqa.
There were no immediate details of a toll in the Raqa strikes.
The deaths in Kobane came on Saturday after "ISIL" extremists launched an unprecedented attack against the border crossing separating the Syrian Kurdish town from Turkey.
The US coordinator of the coalition said earlier this week that at least 600 "ISIL" fighters had been killed in air strikes and that the group had made easy targets of its fighters by pouring them into Kobane.
But Syria's Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said the air strikes were having little effect and that unless Turkey closed its border to extremists, the group would be unharmed by the air strikes.
Damascus has regularly accused Turkey of supporting "terrorism" because of its support for the Syrian opposition.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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