Updated Jan. 27, 2015 6:35 p.m. ET
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ISTANBUL—U.S.-backed Kurdish forces declared victory in the battle for the Syrian border city of Kobani, but said they still face a daunting challenge in pushing the extremist group Islamic State from nearly 400 surrounding villages.

Officials also cautioned that much of the city is still uninhabitable after four months of intense warfare, offering little relief for the hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled across the border into Turkey to escape the advancing Islamist militants.

A local Syrian Kurdish militia was aided by 150 Iraqi Kurdish fighters and hundreds of airstrikes by a U.S.-led international coalition in the seesaw fight that became a test of Western determination to stem the advance of Islamic State.

Kobani is now “100% cleared” of Islamic-State fighters, Idres Nassan, the deputy foreign minister of Kobani’s Kurdish regional administration, said from the city. He said the Kurdish forces are using momentum from the Kobani victory to continue pushing Islamic State militants out of the hundreds of surrounding villages.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/kurdish-forces-declare-complete-victory-in-kobani-1422362163

So Kobani is cleared.  Can they hold it?

Less words, more videos of them smoking ISIS

They aint us they don't run when the  War Aint finished. That is their homeland they will Fight to the last man women and Damn near Child if need be to Be free and stay Free.

Vietnam Lost Cause of Cowards in DC. .

Iraq War Lost Cause of Cowards in DC

Hey Look History repeating itself 50 plus years apart.

Lol derp. The fall of Iraq has nothing to do with DC.. As someone who was there boots on the ground as it ended I know. The Iraqi government (Al Malaki) had a handle on shit their army and IP force was well equipped. The Iraqi government refused to extend or meet terms of a new SOFA (status of forces agreement) without a sofa in place we could not operate in their country. They did not want us there any longer . It had nothing to do with cowards in congress.

Hopefully all this shit with isis will help unite the Kurds,shite etc I doubt it but if they can't see that without the help of everyone specialy the kurds they would have been run the fuck over. Also hope for a real Kurdistan and real military aid.

So....good news then?

  I'm confused. Why are we there now without a SOFA?

Well bye

That is a very good question.