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ISIS Launches Attack On Syria’s Kobani From Turkey

The caliphs are the successors of the Prophet. They ciam ot be able to interpret and rule on the Quran and Hadith. The last person claiming to be caliph was Mehmed V, 1909–18. Abu Baghdaia, the leader of DAISH claims ot be the new Caliph.

The caliphs are the successors of the Prophet. They ciam ot be able to interpret and rule on the Quran and Hadith. The last person claiming to be caliph was Mehmed V, 1909–18. Abu Baghdaia, the leader of DAISH claims ot be the new Caliph.

BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group launched an attack Saturday on the Syrian border town of Kobani from Turkey, a Kurdish official and activists said, although Turkey denied that the fighters had used its territory for the raid.

The assault began when a suicide bomber driving an armored vehicle detonated his explosives on the border crossing between Kobani and Turkey, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Nawaf Khalil, a spokesman for Syria’s powerful Kurdish Democratic Union Party.

The Islamic State group “used to attack the town from three sides,” Khalil said. “Today, they are attacking from four sides.”

Turkey, while previously backing the Syrian rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad in that country’s civil war, has been hesitant to aid them in Kobani because it fears that could stoke Kurdish ambitions for an independent state.  READMORE


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