Islamic State group fighters executed at least 23 Syrian Kurds, among them women and children, in a village south of the border town of Kobani on Thursday, a monitor says.
“Islamic State forces shot dead at least 23 people in the Kurdish village of Barkh Butan, including women and children and residents who had taken up arms to fight,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.
IS launched a surprise attack on Kobani on Thursday, using at least two suicide car bombs and clashing with Kurdish forces.
Kobani, on the border with Turkey, is an important symbol in the battle against the jihadists, having been secured by Kurdish militia with US-led air support in January after four months of ferocious fighting.
— AFP
An ambulance waits in Suruc in Turkey’s in Sanliurfa province to transport wounded people near the Syrian border town of Kobane on June 25, 2015. (AFP)
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