Islamic State Seen Capturing Kobani Within Days
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Islamic State militants may capture Kobani within days if the U.S.-led coalition doesn’t step up airstrikes to help forces defending the besieged Kurdish stronghold in Syria, a Kurdish lawmaker said.
The al-Qaeda breakaway group has seized water wells on the outskirts of Kobani, Faysal Sariyildiz, a lawmaker in the Turkish parliament, said in an interview at the border with Syria yesterday. Even if the wells were under Kurdish control, the lack of diesel due to the siege renders them useless, he said.