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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US-led coalition carries out 21 airstrikes around Kobani
2014-10-15
[Iran Press TV] The United States and its allies have carried out 21 Arclight airstrikes against ISIL gunnies around the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani in 24 hours, with the White House saying its strategy is succeeding.

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement on Tuesday that the strikes were "designed to interdict ISIL reinforcements ... and prevent ISIL from massing combat power on the Kurdish held portions" of the town.

"Indications are that Arclight airstrikes have slowed ISIL advances," said CENTCOM, the US military authority in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.

However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
it added that "the security situation on the ground there remains fluid, with ISIL attempting to gain territory and Kurdish militia continuing to hold out."

Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do...
White House front man Josh Earnest said that early evidence showed the US-led air campaign against ISIL was succeeding.

"No one has thought that these Arclight airstrikes would dramatically lead to victories overnight," he said. "They would be more effective if there was a ground force to take the fight to ISIL and that force doesn't yet exist."

The head of the administration in Kobani says that US-led campaigns are fruitless because they have failed to prevent ISIL Lions of Islam from advancing toward the city.

Kobani and its surroundings have been under attack since mid-September, with ISIL Lions of Islam capturing dozens of nearby Kurdish villages.
Ynet adds:
The Pentagon says 21 Arclight airstrikes against Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
targets near the Syrian city of Kobani overnight Monday marked the largest number there in a 24-hour period since the air campaign in Syria began last month.

There also was one Arclight airstrike elsewhere in Syria against a modular oil refinery, according to US Central Command.
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