A Kurdish official and activists say extremists from the so-called Islamic State group have launched an attack on the Syrian border town of Kobani from Turkey _ a first in the ongoing siege. Nawaf Khalil, a spokesman for Syria's powerful Kurdish Democratic Union Party, says ISIS group militants in Turkey attacked the border crossing point that links the country to Kobani. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Khalil said the offensive began with an armored vehicle suicide attack on the border crossing. There was no immediate comment from Ankara. The ISIS group began its Kobani offensive in mid-September....
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