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IS militants attack Syrian town near Turkey

Xinhua, June 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

Just five months after being dislodged, the Islamic State (IS) militant group has unleashed fresh attacks on Syria's predominantly Kurdish city of Ayn al-Arab, or Kobane, near the Turkish borders, a monitor group reported Thursday.

IS militants attacked the southern districts of Ayn al-Arab, a city that fell to the IS earlier this year, before Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units (YPG) managed to recapture it.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the IS has returned now to Ayn al-Arab, battling the YPG in several areas there.

The attack on the city came after IS militants blew up a booby-trapped vehicle on the border point between Ayn al-Arab and Turkey.

Dozens of people were either killed or wounded in the blast and the attack that ensued.

The latest attack on Ayn al-Arab came apparently as a response to a major offensive by Kurdish fighters on an IS stronghold in Syria's northern province of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the terror group.

On Wednesday, the IS group sent reinforcement to areas in northern Raqqa to fortify its positions against the YPG. Endit