“Our fighters are focusing on advancing in areas towards the center of the town, and hopefully in the coming days, we will be able to announce larger advances,” Idriss Nassan, a senior Kurdish official in Kobani told Fars News agency in Tehran.
Fierce running gun battles continue unabated between Kurdish forces and ISIL militants in Syria’s Northern town of Kobani, which has been under siege by ISIL continuously for over 60 days now…
At least “13 ISIL militants and six Kurdish fighters were killed in the fighting”, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The UK-based group also added that “two civilians lost their lives in ISIL shelling on a refugee camp in the Western part of the town.
*Note: A takfiri (Arabic: تكفيري takfīrī) is a Muslim who accuses another Muslim (or an adherent of another Abrahamic faith) of apostasy (source: http://fas.org/irp/crs/RS21745.pdf ).