If this is true, it’s big news - ISIS has been pushed out of Kobani.

Kurdish fighters backed by intense U.S.-led airstrikes pushed the Islamic State group entirely out of a key Syrian town on Monday, marking a major defeat for the extremists whose hopes for an easy victory when they pushed into Kobani last year dissolved into a bloody, costly and months-long siege.

As their victory neared, the Kurdish troops earlier in the day raised their flag on a hill overlooking the town just across the border with Turkey, replacing the Islamic State group’s black banner.

The battlefield success is a major conquest both for Syria’s embattled Kurds and the U.S.-led coalition, whose American coordinator had predicted that the Islamic State group would “impale itself” on Kobani.

news.yahoo.com

I read somewhere - I’ve forgotten now, perhaps I’ll have to ask Sheikh Efendi - that there was a hadith regarding Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, and that ISIS’ leadership had concluded that if that hadith turned out to be false, than perhaps their own raison d’etre was false as well. They basically pinned everything on that hadith.

And now that prophecy has failed. I guess we’ll see what happens next.