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Monday, January 26, 2015
From the Liveblog of
Monday, January 26, 2015
IS group pushed out of Syria’s Kobani
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleActivists say Kurdish fighters have gained full control of the Syrian town of Kobani, taking it back from Islamic State militants after four months of fighting.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Kobani-based activists say the Kurdish fighters managed on Monday to push back Islamic State militants from their remaining footholds in the eastern parts of the town.
By evening, the Kurdish fighters were celebrating and gunfire echoed across the town.
The victory marked a major loss for Islamic State extremists, whose hopes for an easy victory when they pushed into Kobani last year instead dissolved into a bloody, costly and months-long siege.
— AP
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