Kurdish forces kill 14 ISIL militants in Ain al-Arab

At least 14 members of the Islamid State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were killed in the raging fighting with the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in Ain Al-Arab (Kobani) city in Aleppo governorate, north Syria.
The YPG managed to liberate Sofyan district, south Kobani, from ISIL control and advance on ISIL in other parts of the city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Thursday.
At least one fighter of the YPG was killed and several others wounded in the fighting which coincided with eight airstrikes by the international coalition and sporadic shelling by the Kurdish Peshmerga forces on ISIL positions.
Meanwhile, the Syrian warplanes launched 435 strikes on several parts of Syria between the early morning of Tuesday, December 23, and Thursday afternoon.
The documented air attacks targeted opposition targets such areas as the outskirts of Damascus, Aleppo, Raqqa, Quneitra, Daraa, Deir Ezzor, Homs,Hama, Idlib and Latakia, according to SOHR report.
The attacks, involving ones with barrel bombs, claimed 89 civilian lives, among who were 19 children and 10 women, and wounded more than 300 people, the report added.