The Alamo of the Kurds: Kobane Near Falling to Islamic State

(Before It's News)

By Juan Cole

Ismat Sheikh, commander of the Kurdish forces at the border town of Kobane (Ain al-Arab) that is besieged by Islamic State tanks and artillery, says that he expects massacres of its inhabitants if it falls to the Sunni Arab extremists.

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