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ISIS Continues to Lose Ground against Kurds in Kobane
Arutz Sheva ^ | 27/12/14 | Ari Soffer

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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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: daesh; isil; isis; kobane; kobani; kurdistan; kurds
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Yay.
1 posted on 12/27/2014 3:43:16 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Wait a minute. There’s a region known as Kurd Kobane?


2 posted on 12/27/2014 3:45:04 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

their attacks are often sween as suicidal


3 posted on 12/27/2014 3:47:54 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Eleutheria5

Hurrah.


4 posted on 12/27/2014 3:48:36 PM PST by Kackikat ('If it talks like a traitor, acts like a traitor, then by God it's a traitor.')
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To: Eleutheria5
The whole region is a mess and the reason resides in one word: Islam. Nothing will change as long as this evil religion continues to be portrayed as "true."
5 posted on 12/27/2014 3:49:39 PM PST by Fungi (There is more to Fungi than the eye can see.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

Yeh. It looks like a rock star with a gun in his mouth.


6 posted on 12/27/2014 3:50:12 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: ElkGroveDan
Wait a minute. There’s a region known as Kurd Kobane?

Just seek Nirana.

7 posted on 12/27/2014 3:52:10 PM PST by 9thLife
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To: 9thLife
"nirVana".

oyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

8 posted on 12/27/2014 3:52:40 PM PST by 9thLife
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To: Eleutheria5

Jeez, is there anything left of the town??


9 posted on 12/27/2014 3:58:20 PM PST by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe..)
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To: Eleutheria5

“Compared to the unbeliever, the Kurd is a Muslim”.

Which is one of the good things about the Kurds.


10 posted on 12/27/2014 4:02:03 PM PST by samtheman
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To: bert

This is the Verdun of the IS and their war. This is the place where they lost the war.


11 posted on 12/27/2014 4:10:40 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: ElkGroveDan

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.


12 posted on 12/27/2014 4:24:48 PM PST by iowacornman (Romney is the father of government health care.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

It’s right next to Kurt Cobane and Robbie Coltrane.


13 posted on 12/27/2014 4:25:10 PM PST by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: ElkGroveDan
There’s a region known as Kurd Kobane?

ehehehe--LOL thats funny good.

14 posted on 12/27/2014 4:40:59 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny, dontchyaknow.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

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


15 posted on 12/27/2014 5:01:15 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: cardinal4

“Jeez, is there anything left of the town??”

My thought as well. Must be a real meat grinder going on.


16 posted on 12/27/2014 5:32:32 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Eleutheria5

No prisoners.

Send them all to Allah.


17 posted on 12/27/2014 5:37:16 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Fungi

It’s a massive mess due to Obama and Hillary. This was all avoidable.


18 posted on 12/27/2014 5:39:49 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Eleutheria5

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.


19 posted on 12/27/2014 5:39:56 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: ElkGroveDan
Wait a minute. There’s a region known as Kurd Kobane?

Yes, and it smells like teen spirit.

20 posted on 12/27/2014 5:40:49 PM PST by Lazamataz ("Two parties, governing AGAINST the will of the people, not with the consent of the governed." --MrB)
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