Monitor: Kurdish forces seize 70% of Kobane

Smoke and flames billow following an explosion in the Syrian town of Kobane.

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group has lost ground in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane, where Kurdish forces have now regained control of about 70 percent of territory, a group monitoring the war said on Wednesday.

The People’s Protection Units (YPG), backed by U.S.-led air strikes, were able to push back ISIS fighters after months of besiege, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
 
 
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Source News: Alarabiya
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