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    Kurdish Forces Drive ISIL Militants From Syria’s Kobani

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    Kurdish forces from the People's Protection Units (YPG) on Saturday regained full control of the Syrian city of Kobani on border with Turkey, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.

    MOSCOW (Sputnik) – According to a separate statement by the watchdog, ISIL militants killed at least 174 civilians, including dozens of women and children, in an attack on Kobani that had started early on Thursday and a nearby village.

    “SOHR had been informed that the clashes inside the city of Ayn al- Arab (Kobani) have stopped after YPG fighters could seize the boys high school in the city when they targeted it by a bombing this morning,” the watchdog said in a statement published on its website.

    Recently, ISIL forces have been losing control of the Turkish-Syrian border. Last week, the Kurdish forces liberated the ethnically Kurdish border city of Tel Abyad in northeastern Syria from the Islamic State.

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