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ISIS fights way into center of Ain al-Arab despite airstrikes
October 14, 2014
Jihadists fought their way into central Ain al-Arab in heavy clashes with the Syrian border town's Kurdish defenders Monday, as Turkey denied giving permission to the U.S. to use an airbase on its soil for coalition airstrikes against ISIS.
The breakthrough saw ISIS claim half of Ain al-Arab, known in Kurdish as Kobani, nearly a month after the Sunni extremists began their assault on the town on the Turkish frontier, despite more than three weeks of U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria aimed at stopping them.