A further 57 members of the rival, and al-Qaeda-aligned, group Jabhat al-Nusra were killed in a series of 46 Cruise missile strikes near Aleppo at the opening of the bombing campaign last month.
The Pentagon said they were part of a special al-Qaeda unit set up in areas of Syria wracked by civil war to co-ordinate attacks on the West, including through the use of newly developed, hard-to-detect explosive devices.
The air attacks have had a major effect on the battle for Kobane, where the Kurdish fighters of the local militia, the YPG, were at risk of being swamped until the tide turned a week ago.
The strikes were clearly visible from neighbouring Syria, and Kurdish officials told The Telegraph involved direct liaison between Kurdish fighters and the air force, who were given precise co-ordinates of Isil positions in and around the town.
Mr Roshid and four of his friends were captured on closed circuit television travelling through Gatwick Airport heading for Syria last year (London Media)
The Kurds however say they are still in desperate need of relief, as the jihadists have been able to send in reinforcements, including from their internal “police” service.
Turkey has prevented the YPG from sending in reinforcements, as it is allied to the Turkey-based guerrilla movement, the PKK.
However, the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Thursday confirmed he would allow 200 troops from the official forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, the Peshmerga, to cross into Kobane to bolster the local Kurds.
That deployment was agreed by the KRG parliament on Wednesday.
Mr Erdogan has been highly critical of American support for the YPG, saying that the battle against Isil should be undertaken as part of a wider intervention in Syria to remove the Assad regime.
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