After nearly four months of battles, Kurdish forces took full control of the Syrian town of Kobani(known as Ayn Al-Arab) near the Turkish border on Monday, driving out the last group of Islamic State fighters(ISIS) ,the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Syrian Kurdish forces have been backed by near daily U.S.-led airstrikes around the town and supported by Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces regained full control of the Syrian town, the group monitoring Syria's war and a Kurdish official said on Monday. The town has become a symbol in the battle against the hardline Sunni Muslim insurgents who have captured large expanses of Iraq and Syria. Islamic State launched a campaign to capture the town in July. Syrian Kurdish YPG forces said that they were proceeding carefully because Islamic State fighters had planted mines before fleeing the town. Kobani official Idris Nassan said that half of the town had been completely destroyed and much of the rest of it had suffered damage, leaving many homeless. He said the town lacked water, electricity, hospitals and food. U.S.-led forces have bombed Islamic State positions around the predominantly Kurdish town almost every day this month. The United States says it wants to train and equip mainstream rebel groups to fight Islamic State elsewhere in Syria but fighters say there is uncertainty surrounding the plans.
