Kurds Fight Alone as Coalition Holds Fire on Jihadi Tanks
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Kurdish fighters battled to repel Islamic State militants attempting to seize their Syrian stronghold of Kobani on the border with Turkey after nearly three weeks of fighting.
Armed with light weapons and shooting from inside homes and behind mud walls in territory around the city, Kurdish forces have slowed the militants, whose rapid advance through villages in northern Syria with tanks and heavy artillery had sent thousands of Kurds fleeing into Turkey.