IS militants re-enter Kobane
(AGI) Rome, July 25 - Islamic State (IS) jihadists, who wererecently forced to retreat from the Syrian frontier town Kobaneunder the pressure of Kurdish militias, have launched acounteroffensive. In a surprise move, they mounted a series ofsimultaneous attacks against the Syrian army and the militiasthemselves. Jihadists led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi managedto take back Kobane and seized control of two districts of thecity of Hasaka previously held by Syrian government forces. The attack on Kobane started early on Thursday morning, whenthe militias raided the village of Bark Butan, outside theSyrian-Kurdish enclave,