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Iraqi PM opposes Arab air strikes

Backed by US-led coalition, Kurds battle to defend key Syrian town; UK launches more attacks in Iraq; blasts at school kill dozens in Syria

Agencies
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi yesterday opposed Arab nations' air strikes against so called Islamic State in his country as Kurdish fighters backed by US-led coalition air strikes locked in a fierce battle to prevent a key Syrian border town from falling into the hands of jihadists.
In an interview with BBC, Abadi said Western air power had "filled many gaps" in Iraq's fight against the jihadist group.
Several Arab states, including Saudi
Arabia and Jordan, have joined the international coalition against ISIS. Their aircraft have carried out strikes in Syria, but only those from the US, UK and France have hit targets in Iraq.
Talking to the BBC in Baghdad, Abadi said Iraq's army would defeat ISIS “if we have good air cover" but stressed that no foreign ground troops were needed.
"We are very clear we will not accept any troops on ground except Iraqi troops," he added.
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He warned that “international and regional polarisation" had contributed to the rise of ISIS - which has announced the creation of a "caliphate" in the large swathes of Iraq and Syria under its control - and said he wanted to improve relations with neighbouring countries.
Abadi, a Shia Arab, formed a unity government in September after the resignation of Nouri Maliki, who was accused by Iraq's minority Sunni Arabs and Kurds of monopolising power and pursuing sectarian policies.
The US-led coalition has conducted more than 230 air strikes on IS positions in Iraq since August. The operation was expanded into Syria on 22 September, since when there have been more than 70 strikes.
Earlier, US-led forces carried out air strikes on IS militants battling Kurdish fighters around the northern Syrian border town of Kobane.
Tens of thousands of people have fled across the border into Turkey since IS launched an offensive on the city two weeks ago.
With ISIS fighters less than three kilometres from the town, the US-led coalition carried out at least five air strikes yesterday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Britain-based monitoring group said
the strikes hit IS fronts south and southeast of the town adding that at least eight jihadist fighters were killed in one of them.
One other jihadist and nine Kurdish fighters were killed in the overnight clashes, it said.
If ISIS fighters were to capture Kobane, also known as Ayn al-Arab, it would give the group unbroken control of a long stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border.
Meanwhile at least 30 Syrian children were killed yesterday in a double bombing by a lone assailant at a school in the government-controlled city of Homs, a monitor said.
They were among 39 people who died in the attack in the Akrameh neighbourhood, according to a new toll from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. The toll is among the highest for children in suicide attacks across Syria since the conflict erupted in the country three yearsago.
In Iraq, Kurdish fighters were advancing against IS militants on three fronts, with support from British and US air strikes. Backed by 11 coalition strikes, Kurdish forces went on the offensive on Tuesday in the town of Rabia on the Syrian border, north of jihadist-controlled second city Mosul, and south of oil hub Kirkuk, commanders said.