The Syrian border town of Kobane has been hit by the fiercest fighting in the days as Kurdish forces repelled advancing fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a group monitoring the violence has said.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for human rights said at least 48 mortars had been fired at Kurdish areas in the past two days with two car bombs hitting Kurdish positions on Saturday evening leading to casualties.
"We had the most intense clashes of days, perhaps a week last night. [ISIL] attacked from three different sides, including the municipality building side and the market place," Abdulrahman Gok, a local journalist, told the Reuters news agency.
The Observatory also said 70 ISIL fighters had been killed in the past two days, according to sources at the hospital in the nearby town of Tel Abyab, where bodies are taken.
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