Pentagon

The Pentagon has revised its estimate of the cost of the U.S. air war in Iraq and Syria, saying the price tag for the campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) comes to about $8.3 million a day.

Kurdish forces thwarted a new attempt Oct. 26 by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters to cut off the Syrian town of Kobane from the border with Turkey before Iraqi Kurdish reinforcements can deploy.

A bid by Islamic State fighters to seize the flashpoint Syrian border town of Kobane has stalled, American officials said, with the help of air strikes reported to have killed over 500 jihadists.

“We cannot understand the logic of dropping arms to a city as street clashes are going on, but the Americans believe in their ways. We’ll see.” Those were the words of a Turkish military expert when I asked his opinion on airdrops on Oct. 20, the day U.S.

Iraqi forces backed by US air strikes have repelled an offensive of Islamic State (IS) militants against key Mosul dam in northern Iraq, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.

The Pentagon said the vast majority of military supplies air dropped near the Syrian city of Kobane had reached the Kurdish fighters they were intended to help

Kurds fighting Islamic State (IS) in the Syrian town of Kobane have received US weapons and medical aid, the Pentagon says.

The move comes against the backdrop of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's declarations over the weekend that Ankara would not allow Washington to supply the Kurds with arms.

Air strikes carried out by the US-led coalition have successfully driven Sunni insurgents from Islamic State (IS) from most of Kobane, a town in the north of Syria.

There are prospects that the town could be liberated soon, since there are only two pockets of resistance in the Kobane's east, sources from the Kurdish fighter's command in Kobane told the BBC.

The Pentagon has spent as much as $1.1 billion on U.S. military operations against ISIL militants in Iraq and Syria since the mission began in mid-June

US forces staging the first strikes against ISIL jihadists in Syria also targeted a separate extremist group plotting an imminent attack against US and Western forces, the Pentagon said