Isis fighters in Kobani: Civilians flee as militants enter Syria-Turkey border town
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Hours after the Isis militants raised two of the group's black flags on the outskirts of Kobani, they punctured the Kurdish front lines and advanced into the town itself, the Local Co-ordination Committees activist collective and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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