Lightly armed Kurdish fighters are putting up a stout defense of the border town of Kobani agaist ISIS forces who have been attacking for a month. With the world press gathered just a few hundred yards away just over the border in Turkey, the battle for Kobani has taken on an importance far exceeding its value. AFP: The Islamic State group poured in reinforcements Sunday for its nearly month-long siege of Kobane as the Syrian town's Kurdish defenders kept up their high-profile resistance. IS has sustained serious losses in the battle for the town despite their superior armour, with at least 36 of its fighters killed on Saturday alone, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. With the world's press massed just across the nearby border with Turkey, the fight for the town has become one the jihadists cannot afford to lose, the Britain-based monitoring group said. "It's a decisive battle for them," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told...(Read Full Post)