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| Kurds Push Back IS in Syria's Kobane |
| 2015-01-06 |
| [AnNahar] Kurdish fighters have seized the security and government district of Syria's Kobane from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadist group and now control 80 percent of the border town, a monitoring group said Monday. "The People's Protection Units (YPG) fighting the jihadists (IS) for nearly four months have full control of the security district," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britannia-based group said Kurdish fighters had seized control of the area after fierce festivities since Sunday night. A U.S.-led coalition against IS also carried out at least three air strikes against the jihadist group in the town on the Turkish border, the Observatory said. At least 14 IS members were killed in the fighting, it added. IS began its assault on Kobane in mid-September and came close to overrunning the town, which is also known as Ain al-Arab. But Kurdish fighters, backed by international air strikes, have been able to gradually recapture territory in the small town, which is strategic because of its location on the border. |
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