Monday, January 26, 2015

Kobani Back In Kurdish Control!

Kurds push ISIS out of Kobani in major victory

  • 01/26/2015 08:38 PM
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  • Source: FOXNews.com
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  • by: Fox News Online

Kurdish fighters backed by intense U.S.-led airstrikes
 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.
- See more at: http://americanactionnews.com/articles/chalk-up-a-w-kurds-kick-out-isis-from-
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