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Kurds 'Expel ISIS' from Strategic Kobane
2015-01-26
[ISRAELNATIONALNEWS] Kurdish fighters have expelled 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group holy warriors 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 Britannia-based monitor, said fighters from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) had finally pushed ISIS holy warriors 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 ISIS.

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."

The monitor said Kurdish forces were carrying out "mopping-up operations" against remaining ISIS forces in the Maqtala district, on the eastern outskirts of the town.

There was no immediate official announcement from the YPG, but Mustafa Ebdi, an activist from the town, told AFP that "fighting has stopped" in Kobane.

YPG forces were "advancing carefully in Maqtala because of the threat of mines and boom-mobiles," he added.

The advance by Kurdish fighters came after 24 hours of heavy bombing by the US-led coalition fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

In a statement, the Pentagon said the coalition had carried out 17 air strikes against ISIS positions in Kobane in the 24 hours from January 25 alone.

The targets included "tactical units" and "fighting positions" as well as an ISIS vehicle and staging areas, the statement said.

The loss of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, would be a key symbolic blow against ISIS, which has lost more than 1,000 fighters since it began its advance on the town on September 16.
Posted by:Fred

#8  And done despite obstruction by Turkey.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2015-01-26 18:30  

#7  For a number of ISJVihadis, their private parts is their mouth. For a goodly number others, well, the flagpole would be planted.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-01-26 18:07  

#6  They should have depicted the Kurdish Woman Warrior standing on his private parts....
Posted by: BigEdLB   2015-01-26 17:12  

#5  Good.

Hopefully with a huge count of dead IS fighters.
Posted by: DarthVader   2015-01-26 17:02  

#4  Kurdish defenders had pushed ISIS our of the Southern front in the city of Kobane last week. They then established observation posts on a major hill over looking the Southern area of Kobane and the supply routes to the Eastern Front in Kobane.
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Several of the young men and women Kurdish fighters you have seen in my posts during the past 3 months have been martyred. The Kurds expected it to take 4 months to liberate Kobane. Precisely the time frame.
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Tomorrow the Kurds will hold an official ceremony of the liberation.
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Todays YPG/YPJ Media Center Report: Kobanî– The resistance against terrorist attacks of Daesh (ISIS) attempting to occupy Kobanî continued on the 133rd day. Conducting the operations to liberate Kobanî, our forces are constantly advancing in the Eastern front.

Our units last night directed a concurrent operation on the Eastern front of Kobanî, and managed to advance within 4 streets from northern border to the hill Mishtenur. Severe blows were inflicted to the terrorists by our units of the YPG/YPJ, also a large number of weapons and ammunition were seized.

In this operation 41 members of terrorist forces were confirmed killed whereas 14 bodies of terrorists were captured. Our units were able to seize a Katyusha rocket launcher, 1 DShK 23, 1 DShK 14.5, and a large number of ammunition from terrorist groups.

Our forces of the People’s Defense Units along with the Women’s Defense Units instantaneously launched numerous operations in the eastern and southeastern countryside of Kobanî. A military vehicle of terrorists was destroyed by our forces on the road to the Helinc village, another military vehicle was destroyed near the village of Kîkan. Terrorists’ casualties caused by these operations were not immediately confirmed.
YPG Media Centre
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Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664   2015-01-26 14:33  

#3  Wouldn't be surprised if the Turks close the border crossing to Kobane for "security reasons."

(Won't stop the IS from getting across the border, tho...)
Posted by: Pappy   2015-01-26 14:23  

#2  And now "the coalition" will ask Kurds to leave Kabane.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-01-26 13:21  

#1  Sounds like a good place to carve out a new country for the kurds around there.
Posted by: chris   2015-01-26 12:52  

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