01/26/2015 08:38 PM Source:
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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.
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