Digital Globe, a high-resolution satellite imagery company, released the following image of the Turkish border where refugees are fleeing the bloodshed in Kobani, a Syrian border town currently under an ISIS siege.
CNN's Hala Gorani notes that the photo shows "100s of cars abandoned at Turkey border by refugees fleeing Kobani fighting."
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Earlier this week the US began airdropping weapons, ammunition, and aid in the Syrian border town of Kobani to help ill-equipped Kurdish forces who are trying to counter ISIS fighters surrounding the crucial Syrian border.
"ISIS decided Kobani was important to them. This provided us with an opportunity," a senior Obama administration official said after the equipment deliver. Another official added that ISIS would "suffer significant losses for its focus on Kobani."
The US military had conducted 135 total airstrikes in Kobani, killing "hundreds" of ISIS fighters in hopes to slow the group's advances into the city, according to US Central Command.
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Smoke and flames rise over Syrian town of Kobani after an airstrike, as seen from the Mursitpinar crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, October 20, 2014. The United States told Turkey that a U.S. military air-drop of arms to Syrian Kurds battling Islamic State near the Syrian town of Kobani was a response to a crisis situation and did not represent a change in U.S. policy, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday.
Here's a look at Kobani's location near the Turkey-Syria border:
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Black is ISIS control, Yellow is Kurds, Red is Syrian regime, and Green is Free Syrian Army
Michael B. Kelley contributed to this report.