Kurds Regain Control of Kobani

Local Editor

Kurdish fighters ousted the "ISIL" group from the Syrian border town of Kobane on Saturday; two days after the terrorist group seized several neighborhoods, a monitor and activists said.

"ISIL's" bloody attack on the town had left at least 170 civilians dead as well as 70 combatants.

The Kurdish People's Protection Units [YPG] took back control of "ISIL" positions in Kobane, YPG were able to take back the town's boys' high school, where the last of the "ISIL" fighters were holed up, after setting off explosions.

The Takfiri group infiltrated Kobani at dawn on Thursday, seizing several buildings in the town's south and southwest.

Hours later, YPG reinforcements encircled "ISIL" positions where militants were holding civilians, and gradually began retaking control of the buildings.

The YPG detonated explosives outside the school before storming it. The military operation was carried out after ensuring that there were no civilians left in the school.

At least 174 civilians were killed in the Takfiris' assault on Kobani, 148 of them in the town itself in addition to 16 Kurdish fighters and 54 "ISIL" Takfiri militants.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team