About 1,600 Dead in Syria’s Kobani as Islamic State Loses Ground

At least 1,607 people have died in fighting in Syria’s Kurdish stronghold of Kobani in the last four months, according to a monitoring group, with fighting flaring today as Islamic State militants sought to regain lost territory.

Those killed since Sept. 16 include 1,091 militants and 462 Kurdish guerrillas, the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which chronicles Syria’s civil war through a network of activists, said in an e-mailed statement. Thirty-two civilians have died in Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab.