The militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) advanced its position in the western Kobani region on Thursday and took over the Syrian border where Kurdish forces secured ground three days prior.

The militants have stationed themselves in three crucial points around the city, making paratroops deployment difficult, according to Fox News.

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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced that a battalion of 200 Kurdish Peshmerga from Iraq will be joining Syrian fighters against the ISIS, but no final schedule was madeyet.  Also, an Associated Press journalist recounted instances of heavy machine gunfires in the Turkish Ayn Arab region.

Farhad Shami, a Kurdish activist, told media that the incident started Wednesday night and confirmed that confrontations between the eastern and southern troops normally take place at night.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Kurdish soldiers retreated from Tel Shair hill when ISIS successfully took over the area.  The Islamic rebel group is advancing from the eastern border of Syria resulting in several casualties, the report added.

At least 553 people were killed including 32 civilians, six if which were women and five were children, since the onset of airstrikes on September 23, the Observatory reported.  Among the fatalities are 464 ISIS fighters and 57 others belonging to the Al-Qaeda Nusra Front were killed in Aleppo and Idlib.

Collateral damages forced more than 200,000 Kurdish villages to flee their homes to safe communities in Turkey.

In line with the strengthening bout against the ISIS, the United States government ordered approximately 135 airstrikes in and out of Kobani, destroying ISIS weaponry, vehicles, and command centers situated in Baiji and Fallujah.

While the airstrikes slowed ISIS activities, it did not stop the group from recruiting members outside Middle East. Critics warned United States that such move might not necessarily be the most effective way to diminish the militant forces but instead encourage more civilian violence.

Meanwhile, foreign minister spokesman Idris Nassan said that despite ISIS' control over Tel Shair, aggressive exchange of force between the Kurdish soldiers is still rampant.

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