Kobani air strikes repel Islamic State as Canada okays Iraq mission

A U.S.-led air war is turning the tide against Islamic State in the besieged Syrian border town of Kobani, Kurdish forces said Wednesday, a day after Canada’s Parliament voted to approve air strikes of its own. Kobani, under attack by the Sunni militants for three weeks, is vital to Islamic State’s efforts to cement control of Syria’s north. Their advance has driven 180,000 of the area’s mostly Kurdish inhabitants to flee into adjoining Turkey.

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