Islam Times - ISIL Militants Pull back in Kobani

Islam Times - Takfiris operating within the terrorist group ISIL withdrew from some parts of the embattled Syrian town of Kobani overnight after air strikes by a US-led coalition.

Militants from ISIL “withdrew overnight from several areas in the east of Ain al-Arab (Kobani) and the southwestern edges,” Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the “Syrian Observatory for Human Rights” said on Wednesday.

After the pullback, the insurgents were present in eastern parts of the strategic town and its southern edges, but were no longer inside on the western front, Abdel Rahman said.

He said the move came after "their rear positions were hit in strikes, causing casualties and damaging at least four of their vehicles."

ISIL militants entered Kobani, also known as Ain al-Arab, on Monday night, after nearly three weeks of fighting around the town on the Syria-Turkey border.

On Tuesday, fighting raged in the east, west and south of Kobani, which is Syria's third biggest Kurdish town, and a US-led coalition carried out multiple air strikes around the town.

Mustafa Ebdi, a Kurdish journalist and activist from Kobani, wrote on his Facebook page that "the streets of the Maqtala neighborhood in southeastern Kobani are full of the bodies of Daesh fighters," using the Arabic acronym for ISIL.

But he added that hundreds of civilians remained in the town and "the humanitarian situation is difficult and people need food and water."