In Turkey, families await return of kin wounded in fight against ISIL
October 9, 2014 3:00PM ET
by Emily Feldman
SURUC, Turkey — The men and women wait in the hospital parking lot to see if their children are among the dead and wounded who arrive each day from the besieged Syrian town of Kobane. Their children have taken up arms in the grim fight to stop the town falling to better-armed fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). And the battle is not going well.
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