An Egyptian court designated the Islamic State as a "terrorist" group. The court said Sunday that it also considers all of the affiliates of the insurgent group to be terrorist organizations, including Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, an Egyptian jihadi group that pledged its allegiance to the Islamic State earlier this month. Meanwhile, Syrian activists say that in the last day at least 50 Islamic State militants were killed in the ongoing fight for control of Kobani, a Syrian town just south of the Turkish border.  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the militants were killed in intense fighting with Kurdish forces, U.S. airstrikes and suicide bomb attacks. Eleven Kurdish forces in Kobani were killed. This is VOA News.