Posted on 12/27/2014 3:43:16 PM PST by Eleutheria5
ISIS has lost more ground to Kurdish fighters in the embattled city of Kobane in northern Syria, according to local reports.
"Kurdish forces now control more than 60 percent of the city," said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"ISIS has even left areas that the Kurds did not enter for fear of mines," he added.
Kobane, which lies on the border with Turkey, has been the center of a bloody and symbolic struggle between ISIS, or Islamic State, and the city's Kurdish defenders.
In September it appeared as if the jihadis would seize the town, having largely overpowered the more lightly-armed Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and captured the majority of Kobane. But after weeks of dogged fighting, and backed by US air strikes and reinforcements from Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga and a small number of Arab Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters, the Kurds have gained the upper hand and have been gradually pushing ISIS out.
A Kurdish activist from Kobane, Mustefa Ebdi, told AFP that the YPG had advanced eastwards during the past week. The advance has forced ISIS to withdraw from the Kurdish militia's headquarters it previously seized in northern Kobane, after it was already pushed out of the city's central and southern districts.
Ebdi claimed US-led airstrikes had been the decisive factor in defeating ISIS in Kobane, and said the Islamist terror group was now resorting to insurgency tactics after being routed in direct battle, which had included the use of dozens of suicide bombers.
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Wait a minute. There’s a region known as Kurd Kobane?
their attacks are often sween as suicidal
Hurrah.
Yeh. It looks like a rock star with a gun in his mouth.
Just seek Nirana.
oyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
Jeez, is there anything left of the town??
“Compared to the unbeliever, the Kurd is a Muslim”.
Which is one of the good things about the Kurds.
This is the Verdun of the IS and their war. This is the place where they lost the war.
So what? that town is gone. It is demolished and of no further use. Kurds are doing well for themselves . I just want to stay out unless we are attacked. Directly.
It’s right next to Kurt Cobane and Robbie Coltrane.
ehehehe--LOL thats funny good.
You didn’t get the joke...... the kurd kobane joke, suicide and all
the action is more border straightening. There is no desire by anybody to free all the captured ISIS territory. The desire is to place in the rule of kurds, kurd territory.
the end of ISIS will begin when the borders are more or less finalized. Then the fanatics will be replaced like they were in Egypt
Iraq and Syria will never be again
“Jeez, is there anything left of the town??”
My thought as well. Must be a real meat grinder going on.
No prisoners.
Send them all to Allah.
It’s a massive mess due to Obama and Hillary. This was all avoidable.
I read an article that said over 20,000 youts from around the world have come to fight with ISIS. But they are unskilled and actually somewhat of a liability for the regime.
Yes, and it smells like teen spirit.
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