聯合國：科巴尼一旦陷落，大屠殺恐難避免
Heavy fighting has been reported for yet another day in and around the Syrian city of Kobani along the Turkish border.
Dark plumes of smoke could be seen rising above the city Sunday as Kurdish fighters battled to defend the city from the continuing onslaught by Islamic State extremists.
U.S.-led coalition warplanes have been pounding targets in and around Kobani.
U.N. officials in the region have warned that as many as 12,000 Kurds, including hundreds of elderly people in the city's center, "will most likely be massacred" if Kobani falls. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says IS extremists controlled 40 percent of the town by early Saturday.
The Turkish government has so far refused to join the battle, citing ties between Kobani's Kurdish defenders and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party. The PKK has waged a decades-long rebellion for self-rule in southeastern Turkey and has been designated a terrorist organization by Ankara and Washington.據報道，靠近土耳其邊界的敘利亞城鎮科巴尼城內和周圍星期天繼續發生激戰。庫爾德武裝仍在抵抗伊斯蘭國激進分子，科巴尼冒出滾滾黑煙。
美國爲首的聯盟戰機不斷對科巴尼城內和附近目標發動空襲。
這個地區的聯合國官員警告說，如果科巴尼被攻陷，城內大約1.2萬名庫爾德人很可能被屠殺，其中有幾百位老人。總部設在英國的敘利亞人權瞭望臺說，到星期六早晨爲止，伊斯蘭國激進分子已經控制了科巴尼40%的地方。
雖然國際社會對土耳其總統埃爾多安施加壓力，但土耳其仍未派兵進行干預。土耳其政府拒絕出兵參戰的理由是，保衛科巴尼的庫爾德武裝與被取締的庫爾德工人黨有關聯。
庫爾德工人黨幾十年來一直反叛，要求在土耳其東南部實行庫爾德人自治。該組織被土耳其和美國定爲恐怖組織。
