IS jihadists meet dogged Kurdish resistance

• Islamic State (IS) jihadists met dogged Kurdish resistance in the high-profile Syrian battleground town of Kobane but in Iraq they put forces under strong pressure, prompting U.S.-led relief drops.
• A roadside bomb killed the police chief in Iraq’s Anbar province, between Baghdad and the Syrian border, where Pentagon officials have voiced concern about the vulnerability of government troops to a renewed jihadist offensive.
• Farther north, around the key oil refinery town of Baiji, the Iraqi army and its Sunni Arab tribal allies came under fresh attack by IS, prompting a first resupply operation by coalition aircraft. In Kobane, where IS, is battling Kurdish fighters under the gaze of the international media just across the border with Turkey, the jihadists were taking heavy losses, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
• It said IS was pouring in reinforcements from Syria, after its Friday capture of the Kurdish headquarters in Kobane failed to deliver a knockout blow.