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ISIL fighters were defeated in Kobani in January only after US-led aerial bombardment debilitated their forces [Xinhua]
At least 100 fighters disguised themselves as Kurdish fighters and FSA militia and infiltrated the key town of Kobani (Ain Al Arab, in Arabic) in northeast Syria killing civilians and defense militia along the way.
ISIL forces had previously held – and lost – Kobani, scene of intense fighting and US-led coalition aerial bombardment in January.
The ISIL fighters took up positions in the center of the city, and at press time fierce fighting with Kurdish Protection forces (YPG) was reported. Civilians were told not to leave their homes.
The number of casualties has not yet been confirmed, but some sources in Kobani say at least 35 people were killed in the pre-dawn attack.
ISIL forces also attacked Hasakah, a Syrian town run by YPG and Syrian government forces on the border with Turkey.
Hasakah lies 265 kilometers east of Kobani.
The dual ISIL attacks come less than a week after the YPG captured a former army base, which had belonged to the Syrian army but had fallen to ISIL last year.
The army base, which lies some 50 kilometers north of the self-styled Islamic State capital Raqqa, is of prime strategic importance because it lies on a main supply line for the Islamist extremist group.
A week earlier, ISIL lost the town of Tar Al Abyad to the YPG.
The BRICS Post with inputs from Agencies
