Syria: Islamic State (ISIS) continues to lose ground against Kurds in Kobane
Kurdish YPG fighters on the frontline against ISIS in Ras al-Ain, northern Syira. (Reuters)
ISIS has lost more ground to Kurdish fighters in the embattled city of Kobane in northern Syria, according to local reports.
“Kurdish forces now control more than 60 percent of the city,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
“ISIS has even left areas that the Kurds did not enter for fear of mines,” he added.
Kobane, which lies on the border with Turkey, has been the center of a bloody and symbolic struggle between ISIS, or Islamic State, and the city’s Kurdish defenders.