An Inside Look at Kobani Following ISIS Takeover
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In this Nov. 19, 2014 photo, a Kurdish People's Protection Units fighter walks among the damage from a truck bomb in Kobani, Syria. Here, Kurdish fighters backed by small numbers of Iraqi peshmerga forces and Syrian rebels, are battling what they see as an existential battle against the militants who swept into their town in mid-September as part of a summer blitz that saw the group seize large chunks of territory in Syria and neighboring Iraq.