Kurds push ISIS out of Kobani in major victory
pushed the Islamic State group entirely out of a key
Syrian town on Monday, marking a major defeat
for the extremists whose hopes for an easy victory
when they pushed into Kobani last year dissolved
into a bloody, costly and months-long siege.
As their victory neared, the Kurdish troops earlier
in the day raised their flag on a hill overlooking
the town just across the border with Turkey,
replacing the Islamic State group's black banner.
The battlefield success is a major conquest both for Syria's embattled Kurds and the
U.S.-led coalition, whose American coordinator had predicted that the Islamic State group
would "impale itself" on Kobani.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Kobani-based Syrian activist
Farhad Shami said the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, had been fully expelled
, with some sporadic fighting on the ouster eastern edges of the town.
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