US-led air strikes in Syria were reported Thursday to have killed more than 500 jihadists in a month, as Kurdish fighters readied to reinforce the embattled border town of Kobane. An AFP correspondent across the frontier in Turkey reported fierce clashes and fresh air raids in Kobane, with heavy gun and mortar fire rocking its western side in the evening. The Islamic State (IS) group, which on June 29 declared a "caliphate" over territory it seized in Iraq and Syria, was on Thursday described as the world's wealthiest "terror" group, earning $1 million a day from oil sales alone. The...
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