From Yahoo:
"Kobane in ruins after Kurds drive out IS"
Pulverised buildings, heavily armed fighters roaming otherwise deserted rubble-strewn streets: the ferocious battle for Kobane has left the Syrian border town in ruins, according to a team of AFP journalists who arrived there Wednesday. Kurdish forces recaptured the town on the Turkish frontier from the Islamic State group on Monday in a symbolic blow to the jihadists who have seized swathes of territory in their brutal onslaught across Syria and Iraq. After more than four months of fighting, the streets of Kobane -- now patrolled by Kurdish militiamen with barely a civilian in sight -- were a mass of debris and buildings that had in some case been turned to dust Kurdish fighters armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles greeted the journalists with a hail of celebratory gunshots into the air and made the "V" for victory sign. Still, the recapture of Kobane appeared to be a major step in the campaign against the IS militants who had seemed poised in September to seize the town, whose symbolic importance had far outgrown its military value. The US official said many foreign fighters -- including Australians, Belgians, Canadians and Chechens -- were among the dead jihadists.
^ This is a huge set-back to IS and other Muslim extremists. The Kurds, as usual, have done a great job and have done what other militaries have tried to do. ^
http://news.yahoo.com/massive-destruction-kobane-kurds-drive-jihadists-133217813.html
"Kobane in ruins after Kurds drive out IS"
Pulverised buildings, heavily armed fighters roaming otherwise deserted rubble-strewn streets: the ferocious battle for Kobane has left the Syrian border town in ruins, according to a team of AFP journalists who arrived there Wednesday. Kurdish forces recaptured the town on the Turkish frontier from the Islamic State group on Monday in a symbolic blow to the jihadists who have seized swathes of territory in their brutal onslaught across Syria and Iraq. After more than four months of fighting, the streets of Kobane -- now patrolled by Kurdish militiamen with barely a civilian in sight -- were a mass of debris and buildings that had in some case been turned to dust Kurdish fighters armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles greeted the journalists with a hail of celebratory gunshots into the air and made the "V" for victory sign. Still, the recapture of Kobane appeared to be a major step in the campaign against the IS militants who had seemed poised in September to seize the town, whose symbolic importance had far outgrown its military value. The US official said many foreign fighters -- including Australians, Belgians, Canadians and Chechens -- were among the dead jihadists.
With the eyes of the international media watching, the jihadists "wanted to raise the largest flag they ever made over Kobane," the official said. "Kobane shows that you're not going to be part of something great... so the whole narrative that ISIL is trying to put out, Kobane really puts a dent in it."
^ This is a huge set-back to IS and other Muslim extremists. The Kurds, as usual, have done a great job and have done what other militaries have tried to do. ^
http://news.yahoo.com/massive-destruction-kobane-kurds-drive-jihadists-133217813.html
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