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                    [Title] => Kurds expand offensive after driving IS out of Syrian town
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Kurdish fighters expanded their offensive yesterday after driving Islamic State militants from the Syrian border town of Kobani the previous day, to retake dozens of surrounding villages still held by the militants, activists and officials said.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-28 02:10:12 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1163274 [AuthorName] => Bassem Mroue [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1405839 [Title] => Kurdish fighters face resistance from IS in Iraq [Summary] =>

Kurdish fighters in Iraq pushed deeper yesterday into the town of Sinjar, held by the Islamic State group, but are facing stiff resistance from the Sunni militants who captured it in August.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-23 04:06:12 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1242882 [AuthorName] => Dalton Bennett [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1380471 [Title] => Obama, allies plot anti-ISIS strategy [Summary] =>

President Barack Obama and military chiefs from more than 20 nations gathered Tuesday in a show of strength against Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria. But the alliance faced a fresh test as Turkey launched airstrikes against Kurdish rebels inside its borders, defying pleas from the U.S. to instead focus on the IS.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-15 09:21:27 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1432821 [AuthorName] => Julie Pace and Suzan Fraser [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20141002/ISIS-5.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1380464 [Title] => Activists: Airstrikes hit jihadi targets in Syria [Summary] =>

The US-led coalition has launched several airstrikes on Islamic State group positions in Syria, mainly in and around the town of Kobani near Turkey, where Kurdish fighters captured a strategic hill and brought down the jihadists' black flag, activists and a Kurdish official said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-15 04:18:10 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1452347 [AuthorName] => Lefteris Pitarakis and Bassem Mroue [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) ) )
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