ISIS admits defeat in Kobani for the first time, blaming U.S. warplanes ‘bombarding us night and day

[pampango]

The Islamic State group has acknowledged for the first time that its fighters have been defeated in the Syrian town of Kobani and vowed to attack the town again.

In a video released by the pro-IS Aamaq News Agency late Friday, two fighters said the airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition were the main reason why ISIS fighters were forced to withdraw from Kobani. One fighter vowed to defeat the main Kurdish militia in Syria, the People’s Protection Units known as the YPG.

The failure to capture and hold Kobani was a major blow to the extremists. Their hopes for an easy victory dissolved into a costly siege under withering airstrikes by coalition forces and an assault by Kurdish militiamen.

ISIS launched an offensive on the Kobani region in mid-September capturing more than 300 Kurdish villages and parts of the town. As a result of the airstrikes and stiff Kurdish resistance, IS began retreating a few weeks ago, losing more than 1,000 fighters, according to activists.

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[Fred Sanders]

1. ISIS blamed the multi-national coalition, not "U.S. Warplanes"....but take all the credit, the world

is used to it Americans hogging the glory. Although it is just two fighters misquoted by the Western media, after all. The ten thousand others many have a different opinion.

And it is the Kurdish Persherga boots and hundreds of Persherga deaths ion the ground that is mainly responsible for the capture of Kobani, big assist to the coalition air strikes.

There is also a Jordanian pilot in ISIS custody....too bad for ISIS he is not American, it would be much more a propganda coupe.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Most excellent.

[former9thward]

3. At least ISIS is honest about admitting their defeats.

Unlike the U.S. in in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[nilesobek]

4. The dude with the British accent is still rolling.

It makes me suspicious that this was an MI6 operation in the beginning to destabilize Assad but has gone rogue.

[Dorian Gray]

5. Whomp whomp n/t

[Cha]

6. It's a Coalition led by the US.. no one is trying to "hog" any *******.. to point is to defeat the

******* monsters.

Grateful they are retreating from Kobani.. imagine Kobani is grateful to the USA and their coalition. I know it's popular with some to hate on the USA.. too bad if this chafes their ****s.