The reports from Kobani have ISIS retreating from the city and concentrating is efforts more to the south.

<<< Citizens of Kobani stand on the hillsides in Turkey,  watching and hoping for victory as the Kurdish forces seem to have driven the invading ISIS forces from their city.  Very good news.

Update:  (Sunday) Apparently ISIS is mounting a counter offensive into Kobani.  The fight is not over and ISIS has not retreated in a final sense of the word.  More than this,  Turkey has prohibited the US from giving the Kurds arms and ammunitions  . . . . . . . . .   and Turkey is a friend of the Muslim Sympathizer in our WH??!!   

Rudaw:

Islamist militants have been pushed out of Kobane and fighters of the Peoples Protection Units (YPG) are now in control of the town, a Kurdish official in Kobane told Rudaw.

“There is no ISIS in Kobane now,” said Omar Alush, co-chair of the TEV-DEM movement in Kobane.

Alush said that following the recent air strikes on positions of the Islamic State (IS) militants in Kobane, the YPG managed to drive the rest of the jihadis out of town and that they are now in control.

“YPG fighters are now searching the homes for bombs and explosives that the Islamist militants might have left behind,” said Alush.

IS militants laid siege to the Kurdish town of Kobane on the Turkish-Syrian border last month, pounding the town with heavy artillery and tanks.

With support from US air strikes, the YPG held the town and eventually managed to turn the tide against the IS.

“Kobane is quiet now and the flag of ISIS is gone,” Alush maintained.

Editor’s notes:  As of the first of this past week,  news reports told us that nearly all of the 50,000 had escaped the city,  with only 700 people remaining in the town,  no doubt most of those were the Kurdish forces fighting to save their city. 

The victory is positive proof of the claim of our military leaders that the battle/war against ISIS cannot be won via brute air power alone.  And the best of the Iraqi/Arab fighters are not the ISIS troops or Iraian forces or the best of the Iraqi forces,  but the Kurds. 

While this battle was raging in the north,  Anwar Province was in flames,  ISIS was everywhere,  recapturing Fallujah and 90% of the Anwar province just west of Baghdad. 

The situation is very different in these southern regions.  There will be no Kurdish elements.  And,  there are no Arab partners in the "coalition" willing to fight the fight.  Training Syrian rebels,  one of Obama's first "bright" ideas,  has evaporated with nothing to take its place.  The situation on the west side of Baghdad is both developing and discouraging.  ISIS seems to have strengthened its hand in Anwar near Baghdad while retreating from the Kobani fight.  What happens next,  but all the talk has to do with a protracted war without much promise of a successful ending.