yay! RT @UPI Kurdish Peshmerga have taken Kobane back from Islamic State
http://t.co/na5hZvBNzj pic.twitter.com/Ayd0kTec2U
— हम भारत के लोग (@India_Policy) January 26, 2015
#Kobane has been cleansed of ISIS and liberated after 134 days of epic resistance by Kurdish fighters!
#TwitterKurds pic.twitter.com/JGUy2XFTH9
— Para Keta (@ParaKeta) January 26, 2015
Beirut (AFP) – Kurdish fighters have expelled Islamic State group militants from inside the Syrian border town of Kobane, a monitor said Monday, dealing a key symbolic blow to the jihadists’ ambitions.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said fighters from the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) had pushed IS militants out of the town after four months of fighting.
In Iraq meanwhile, a senior army officer announced that Iraqi forces had also “liberated” Diyala province from the Islamic State group.
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP that YPG forces had “expelled all Islamic State fighters from Kobane and have full control of the town.”
“The Kurds are pursuing some jihadists on the eastern outskirts of Kobane, but there is no more fighting inside now.”