Alwaght - Kurdish forces took control of the Syrian town of Kobani, known as Ayn al-Arab in Arabic, on Monday after driving out ISIS terrorists, a monitoring group and Syrian state media said, Reuters reported .
ISIS terrorist group launched an assault on the predominantly Kurdish town last year, forcing tens of thousands of locals into exile .
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) had retaken the town, close to the Turkish border, but were proceeding carefully in the eastern outskirts where Islamic State had planted mines before fleeing .
The ISIS still has terrorists in hundreds of nearby villages, and called on supporters on Monday to target people in the West with whatever weapons they could lay their hands on .
"The people of Ayn al-Arab were able to expel the terrorist organization Daesh (ISIS) from their town and control it almost completely," Syrian state news agency SANA said, citing local sources
In September, the ISIL militants captured some 300 Kurdish villages near Kobani and thrust into the town itself. Tens of thousands of refugees spilled across the border into Turkey.
Backed by Kurdish Peshmerga forces, YPG has made significant progress in retaking positions from terrorists in north Syria.
The battle for the town has claimed the lives of more than 1,600 people, most of them from ISIL. .
