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Islamic State on the verge of storming Kobane, reports

Kurdish Syrian town could be about to fall to IS, with fighters inside the town claiming only a small pocket of resistance remains
Smoke rises from the Syrian town Kobane, near the border crossing with Syria on 3 October (AFP)
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