ISIL PUSHES FOWARD ON BESIEGED SYRIAN TOWN
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant is continuing to push its attempts to control a key Syrian border town despite resistance from local fighters and US-led air attacks.
Fighting raged on Saturday between ISIL and Kurdish fighters in Kobane, with artillery fire pounding the southwestern areas, a day after ISIL fired at least 80 mortar rounds into the town and advanced to its outskirts.
Al Jazeera's correspondent Bernard Smith said he could hear artillery bursts and gunfire from his position in Suruc in Turkey, about 6km from Kobane.
Another Al Jazeera correspondent reported that ISIL on Friday night attempted four times to storm the town from the east side, but US-led air attacks stopped the advances and killed dozens of its fighters.
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AUSTRALIA RAIDS OVER ISIL PLOT TO BEHEADED
SYDNEY, Australia - Police have carried out
anti-terror raids in Sydney sparked by intelligence reports that Islamic
extremists were planning random killings in Australia.
PM Tony Abbott said a senior Australian Islamic State
militant had called for "demonstration killings", reportedly including a
public beheading.
The raids, with at least 800 heavily-armed officers, led to 15 arrests.
One man has been charged with planning an attack. Prosecutors said he planned to "gruesomely" execute someone.
Australian media reports said a plot involved beheading a
random member of the public after draping them in an Islamic State flag.
Asked about the reports in a press conference, Mr Abbott said: "That's the intelligence we received.''
- "Direct exhortations were coming from an Australian who is apparently quite senior in ISIL (Islamic State) to networks of support back in Australia to conduct demonstration killings here in this country."
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