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            IS Nearing Syrian Border Town, as Turks Consider Action

   by VOA News

   Islamic State militants are closing in on the Syrian town of Kobani, on
   the Turkish border - as Turkey's parliament prepares to vote on whether
   to authorize military action against the group.

   An organization monitoring the conflict, Britain-based Syrian
   Observatory for Human Rights, said Kurdish fighters were battling IS
   militants within hundreds of meters of the town, which is also known as
   Ayn al-Arab.

   Turkey's government has requested that lawmakers authorize the use of
   military force to counter terrorist groups in neighboring Syria and
   Iraq. The vote could also allow foreign forces to operate from Turkey
   against the Islamic State.

   More than 160,000 refugees have crossed into Turkey from the Kobani
   area since an IS offensive began in mid-September.

   Turkey was already home to more than a million Syrians who fled the
   civil war in their country.
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