Syria news today: the militants of the Islamic state step on the Kurdish city of Coban

Syria news today: the militants of the Islamic state step on the Kurdish city of Coban

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Terrorists are using tanks, artillery and mortars captured by them in the warehouses of the Iraqi army in Mosul

World news today, BEIRUT, 19 September. The militants of the Islamic state (IG) advancing on the Kurdish city of Coban in northern Syria. According to incoming reports, Kurdish defense forces provide them with fierce resistance. Over the past day the militia killed 102 terrorists.

However, the situation is very dangerous. Plunging in a mess Islamists used tanks, artillery and mortars captured by them in the warehouses of the Iraqi army in Mosul.

Siege of Coban (Arabic geographical name Ayn al-Arab) lasts about a year, but now superseded Kurdish mujahideen fighters from 16 villages to the west and east of the city and approached close to its limits.

Defence Coban – “a matter of life and death for the Kurds”

A military commander Murat Karayilan called defense Coban “a matter of life and death for the Kurds.” According to him, “we are talking about saving the nation.” “We are threatened by heavily armed bandits are killed hundreds of thousands of people, and none Kurd has no right to stay away,” – he said.

Koban (532 km from Damascus) is the third largest city in Western Kurdistan after Qamishli and Afrin – the other two centers autonomous administration established by the Kurdish Democratic Union (DTP) in the north of Syria.

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