By Adnan Khan In a video released by the pro-ISIS Aamaq News Agency on Friday 30 January 2015, ISIS acknowledged that its fighters have been defeated in the Syrian northern town of Kobani.[1] The battle for Kobani which began in late 2014, received much global media attention as over 200,000 Kurds from the town crossed the border into Turkey leading to the call for all Kurds to come to the rescue. Comparisons were made with the Nazi defeat in Stalingrad , which was the beginning of the end of the Third Reich. Since the ISIS declaration of the Caliphate back in June 2014, ISIS expanded its control and entered into many battles with rebel groups, al-Assad’s’ forces and the US air force. Analysing the loss of Kobani reveals ISIS is now on the defensive, but not defeated. It was in September 2014 that ISIS fighters captured some 300 Kurdish villages near Kobani and thrust into the town itself. Tens of thousands of refugees spilled across th
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