US C-130 transport aircraft have airdropped weapons, ammunition, and medical supplies to Kurdish fighters holding the northern Syrian city of Kobani from Islamic State (IS) fighters.  US-led air strikes helped the Kurds push black the militants.

The airdrops are likely to irk Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has refused to allow Kurdish fighters to receive any transfers of American arms through Turkey.  Turkey has resisted all calls to get off its border and get into the game, and help the Kurds retain Kobani.  But Turkey has bombed Kurdish groups in its own territory, complicating the situation even further, and generally treats Kurdish refugees like crap.

IS apparently took heavy losses in the battle for Kobani.  A Syrian opposition group says the bodies of at least 70 Islamic State militants were dumped at a hospital in the Syrian town of Tal Abyad over four days.  It’s not clear who dumped the bodies, but IS is the likeliest explanation, since the group controls the town.

Meanwhile, a suicide bomber set off an explosive belt near a Shiite mosque in Baghdad’s western district of Harthiya.  The blast killed 18 people, mostly Shiite worshippers, and wounded 32 others.  There’s been no claim of responsibility, but Islamic State staged several similar attacks in the area.