ISIL gets closer to Syrian-Turkish borders, say reports

AMMAN, Sept 29 (KUNA) -- Fighters of the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (ISIL) are a few kilometers from the Kurdish town of Ain Al-Arab on the Syrian-Turkish borders, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday.
For the third day in a row, ISIL is shelling Ain Al-Arab (called Kobane by Kurds) as 17 shells have fallen in the center of the town among other parts, the Observatory added.
It quoted medical sources as saying that three people had been killed and others wounded. Turkish elements reportedly withdrew from the Ain Al-Arab crossing into Turkey after the shells fell on the area.
Sources at the site told the Observatory, based in London, that several displaced Kurds were injured by the shells, at the time when fighting continues between ISIL and the Kurdish People's Protection Units in the town's countryside, where dozens from both fell dead.
The ISIL fighters advanced as far as five kilometers from the town since the attack the insurgents launched on Sept 16. Over the past fortnight, ISIL seized control over 70 villages in the region, forcing up to 200,000 to flee their homes. Many of the displaced crossed the borders into Turkey.
Meanwhile, fighting was resumed today between the ISIL and the People's Protection Units in the Al-Yarbia border crossing with Iraq, where up to 31 from the Kurdish elements and Al-Karama army, which belongs to al-Jazira ruler Hamidi Daham al-Hadiwere were killed, together with 11 insurgents. (end) tk.msa