Whatever happened to Kobani ?
▻http://www.irinnews.org/report/101465/whatever-happened-to-kobani
Seven months ago, all eyes were on the Syrian town of Kobani as Islamic State militants and local Kurdish forces battled it out to the last fighter. An estimated 400,000 Kurds fled across the border into Turkey. During the 16 weeks since the Islamic State (IS) was driven out, many residents have come back to find a town in desperate need of international aid. They wonder why it has been so slow to arrive.
Returning to try to rebuild their shattered lives, they tread carefully for fear of IS booby traps and unexploded ordnance. Sometimes, too often, they get it wrong.
Since late January, there have been 45 explosions and 66 people killed, the vast majority of them civilians, one demining NGO told IRIN.
The black flag of IS was raised above Kobani in October as the jihadists took control. An American-led coalition bombed the militants. Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and elements of the Free Syrian Army rebels joined the fight against IS. [...]
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