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A jet from the U.S.-led coalition flies in the sky over the Syrian town of Kobani as seen from a hill in Tal-Hajeb village that overlooks Kobani, October 7, 2014.
The group has been flying the planes over a captured Syrian military airport in the northern Aleppo province, said Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
'They have trainers, Iraqi officers who were pilots before for (former Iraqi president) Saddam Hussein,' he said. 'People saw the flights, they went up many times from the airport.'
(Reporting by Sylvia Westall, editing by John Stonestreet)
Entities 0 Name: Kobani Count: 2 1 Name: Iraqi Count: 2 2 Name: Saddam Hussein Count: 1 3 Name: Sylvia Westall Count: 1 4 Name: Tal-Hajeb Count: 1 5 Name: Aleppo Count: 1 6 Name: John Stonestreet Count: 1 7 Name: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Count: 1 8 Name: Syrian Count: 1 9 Name: Rami Abdulrahman Count: 1 Related 0 Url: http://ift.tt/1svdceg Title: Syrian Kurds Gain Importance In Campaign Against ISIS Description: Posted: WASHINGTON -- After more than a month of being outnumbered and outgunned, facing likely doom in Kobani, Kurdish fighters have begun to turn the tide against Islamic State militants with help from airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition. The U.S. has said the strikes are intended to aid Kobani's defenders.
