The terrorist militia IS should have withdrawn from parts of the contested city Kobane. Syrian activists, according to the American air strikes were the reason. The streets were full of corpses.

The “Islamic State” (IS) has abandoned some quarters of the competitive North Syrian border town Kobane in Tuesday night.

After the renewed international air attacks, the IS-fighters had left areas in the east and the south-western edge of the city, said the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abd al-Rahman. However, IS-fighters were still in the city. Rahman founded the retreat with the attacks on IS-positions before Kobane.

The strategically important town on the border with Turkey, which is called in Arabic Ain al-Arab is, for weeks hotly contested. Despite strong opposition Kurdish militias and international air attacks the IS-jihadists penetrated first time on Monday in the city.

Kurds Fight against IS: “I’m afraid Kobane will fall”

The Kurdish activist and journalist Mustafa Ebdî reported Wednesday on Facebook, the streets of Maktala district in the southeast Kobanes were “full of corpses” of IS-fighters. He warned that the humanitarian situation for the hundreds remaining civilians in the city is very difficult.

Air attacks, there were loud Kurdish media on bases of the terrorist militia in the strategically important hill of Mischtanur. It also arms depots were destroyed. In the southwest of the city jihadists have however included some buildings.

Yet on Tuesday evening was esextrem pessimistic forecasts from the White House. The Kurdish enclave would hold on much longer, predicted U.S. Chief of Staff Martin Dempsey on TV channel ABC: “I’m afraid Kobane will fall.”

For the first time the Americans evacuated so that such a defeat against the IS one open. How unsuccessful the U.S. air strikes were at least in Kobane, four-star General Dempsey did not deny it: You try to make the IS indeed, “where we can” – but the terrorists are extremely flexible and know again and again “herauszumanövrieren”.

The Syrian Kurds asked the international community to urgently heavy weapons to defend Kobanes. “Everybody says ‘we are with you’,” the Co-President of the Syrian Kurdish party PYD, Salih Muslim, the Turkish newspaper “Hurriyet Daily News” said. But no country in an entrepreneurial concrete steps to do. “We want anti-tank.

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