敘重要邊境城鎮遭伊斯蘭國武裝強攻
Kurdish officials say Islamic State forces shelled the Syrian border town of Kobani from three fronts Saturday.
The attacks are the latest attempts by militants to take the town, defended by Kurdish forces backed by U.S.-led airstrikes.
An estimated 160,000 people have fled across the border into Turkey to escape the fighting around Kobani; a conflict now said to be overshadowing Syria's wider civil war.
Kobani and its surrounding areas have been under attack since mid-September by Islamic State fighters trying to open a direct link between their positions in the Syrian province of Aleppo and their stronghold of Raqqa, to the east. The Islamic State group has captured dozens of nearby Kurdish villages.
In another development, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has apologized to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for comments suggesting Turkey had allowed Islamic fighters to pass through its border into Syria and helped arm militant groups.庫爾德官員表示，伊斯蘭國極端組織武裝星期六從3個戰線轟擊敘利亞邊境城鎮柯巴尼。
這是激進分子試圖奪取該鎮的最新攻勢。庫爾德武裝在美國領導的國際空襲行動的支援下，目前固守這個城鎮。
大約16萬人爲躲避柯巴尼周邊地區的戰事，越過邊界逃入土耳其。這裏的衝突據說轉移了對敘利亞內戰的關注。
柯巴尼及其附近地區自9月中以來一直受到伊斯蘭國組織武裝的攻擊，試圖在他們位於敘利亞阿勒頗的陣地和以東方向拉卡的據點之間打開一條通道。伊斯蘭國組織武裝已經佔領了幾十個附近的庫爾德村莊。
另外，美國副總統拜登爲其有關評論向土耳其總統埃爾多安道歉。拜登曾表示，土耳其曾允許伊斯蘭武裝分子穿過其邊境進入敘利亞，並幫助提供武器給激進組織。
