National Security

Heavy fighting hits Syrian border town

By BASSEM MROUESUZAN FRASER
Published October 3, 2014 8:49pm ET
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Heavy fighting hits Syrian border town
Smoke rises after a mortar shell landed in the west part of the city center of Kobani in Syria as fighting intensified between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, seen from Mursitpinar near Suruc, Turkey, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. Turkey's parliament approved Thursday a motion that gives the government new powers to launch military incursions into Syria and Iraq and to allow foreign forces to use its territory for possible operations against the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) | Burhan Ozbilici

BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State militants heavily shelled a Kurdish town on Syria’s border with Turkey on Friday as jihadi fighters prepared an all-out offensive for the strategic site, whose capture would provide a direct link between areas under their control in Aleppo and their stronghold in Raqqa to the east.

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