The US-led coalition carried out a series of air strikes overnight in the embattled Syrian town of Kobani against the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant terrorist group

The US-led coalition carried out a series of air strikes overnight in the embattled Syrian town of Kobani against the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant terrorist group, a monitor and activists said Sunday.
  
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported intensifying clashes between Kurdish fighters defending Kobani and ISIL terrorists in the south of the town, which lies on the Turkish border.
  
Kurdish activist and Kobani resident Mustefa Ebdi reported at least seven international air strikes overnight. He said the explosions could be heard 20 kilometers from Kobani, and shook the cars of people with him on the border between Turkey and Syria.
 
In southern Kobani, meanwhile, the Britain-based Observatory said fierce clashes underway for the past three days were continuing with reports of injuries on both sides.
  
The group said Kurdish YPG forces and Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters were also shelling ISIL positions during the clashes. Ebdi also reported the clashes, saying the situation in Kobani "has progressed from defense to attack because of the air raids and the support the peshmerga and the (Arab rebel) Free Syrian Army are giving the YPG fighters."
  
"The Kurdish fighters are advancing slowly because of the mines laid by IS. They are trying to retake territory," he said.

The Observatory said Sunday that the toll since fighting began had risen to 1,153, including 27 civilians, 398 Kurdish YPG fighters, 16 non-Kurdish rebels backing the YPG and 712 ISIL militants.