ISIS fighters pounded the Syrian city of Kobani with tanks and
heavy artillery Monday as the extremist group came closer to capturing the key
city on the border with Turkey.
The fall of the city would carry huge symbolic and strategic
weight, giving ISIS sway over an uninterrupted swatch of land between the
Turkish border and its self-declared capital in Raqqa, Syria, 100 kilometers
(62 miles) away.
Although the fight was not over, CNN crews on Monday spotted what
appeared to be the black flag of ISIS flying from a hilltop on the eastern side of the
city. The flag was farther east into the city from one shown flying atop a
building in video from Reuters and also seen by the CNN crews.
The Turkish military, which has bulked up its defenses along the
border in recent days as the fighting has flared, blocked people fleeing the
fighting from crossing the border.
"We want to go across!" would-be refugees chanted as
they pressed against a border fence.
A civilian in Kobani, who can't be named because of security
concerns, estimated that few civilians remain in the city -- maybe 100. They
are prepared to die should ISIS take over, he said.
The city's defenders vowed to keep fighting.
"We are afraid of this. We are obliged to defend our home,
our town," Kurdish Kobani official Idriss Nassan said. "We didn't
choose this war, but we are obliged to fight."
Yet, members of the Kurdish People's Protection Unit, called YPG,
and other groups defending the city couldn't move overnight because of ISIS
snipers equipped with night vision equipment, a fighter inside the city told
CNN
Source:CNN
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