Kurds drive IS from Kobane

Kurds drive IS from Kobane

FPJ BureauUpdated: Saturday, June 01, 2019, 12:41 AM IST
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Syrian displaced children, who fled their homes in the northeast city of Hasakeh due to attacks by the Islamic State (IS) group, sit on mattresses in the back of a pick-up truck driving in the Kurdish city of Qamishli, on the border with Turkey, on June 26, 2015. Clashes between IS jihadists and government troops in Hasakeh have displaced an estimated 60,000 people, the UN office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs (OCHA) said. AFP PHOTO / DELIL SOULEIMAN |

Beirut : Kurdish fighters ousted the Islamic State group from the Syrian border town of Kobane, two days after the jihadists had seized several neighbourhoods, a monitor and activists said.       IS’s bloody attack on the town had left at least 174 civilians dead as well as 70 combatants, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

 “The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) took back control of IS positions in Kobane,” the Britain-based group said.                 “The YPG were able to take back the town’s boys’ high school, where the last of the IS fighters were holed up, after setting off explosions.” The jihadist group entered Kobane at dawn on Thursday, seizing several buildings in the town’s south and southwest. Hours later, YPG reinforcements encircled the IS positions — where the jihadists were holding civilians — and slowly began retaking control of the buildings. Local journalist Rudi Mohammad Amin told AFP that “all of Kobane is again under the control of the YPG.” “The YPG detonated explosives outside of the school, then stormed it,” Amin said, speaking via the Internet from a position near Kobane. “This military operation was carried out after ensuring that there were no civilians left in the school,” he added. Amin said he believed all the IS fighters in the school were killed.

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