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måndag 26 januari 2015
Kobane freed of Isis Islamic barbaric terrorists
Kobane freed of Isis
Islamic barbaric terrorists
The terror organization IS has been pushed back from the Kurdish city Kobane.
After four months of fighting are now beginning to refugees returning to the bombed city.
Since last September, the IS attacked the strategically important town Kobane on the border between Syria and Turkey.
Around 200,000 people have been forced to flee their homes. Many of them have been living in makeshift camps on the border next to the ongoing fighting.
Although the US-led coalition has bombed the advancing IS-forces in the area, they have managed to take, and keep, large parts of Kobane.
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The attacks on the city occurred from three sides and large parts of the buildings are now completely ruined.
But on Monday came the news that the fighting in the city will soon be over. The Kurdish forces, consisting mainly of soldiers from guerrilla groups YPG and Peshmerga, say they now have drifted IS on the run. The Kurds say they now control at least 90 percent of the city.
The terror group's black flag that appeared on the mountain Mistenur above Kobane since October has now been replaced by a long pennant with the Kurdish colors.
During the autumn and winter battles, the IS also added in some 300 villages in the region as the people fled in panic.
1600 Dead
It is still uncertain whether the IS will now withdraw completely from the region or if they are planning new offensives.
- We move forward carefully because they may have undermined the road behind him, says the spokesperson for the Kurdish forces, Idris Nassan, told Reuters.
Since 23 September, the coalition conducted nearly 2,000 air strikes against terrorist network. 80 percent of attacks across Syria have taken place in the area around Kobane.
1600 people have been killed in the fighting on Kobane, of which 1075 will be the IS-followers, according to the Associated Press.
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