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Zach Noble · Jan. 31, 2015 9:07am

Islamic State Admits Something Huge for the First Time | TheBlaze.com

Islamic State Admits Something Huge for the First Time

Jan. 31, 2015 9:07am Zach Noble

BEIRUT (TheBlaze/AP) — It’s an historic defeat — in their own backyard.

Members of the Islamic State group have acknowledged for the first time that they were defeated in the Syrian town of Kobani.

The wreckage left by fighting is seen in the center of the Syrian town of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab) on January 30, 2015 after it has been freed from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) forces. It is planned that a part of Kobani will be left as it is for a while to point out terrorism. (Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

In a video released by the pro-IS Aamaq News Agency late Friday, two fighters said airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition were the main reason why they were forced to withdraw from Kobani.

Kobani lies on the border between Turkey and Syria, not far from the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa.

The Islamic State has admitted defeat in the town of Kobani, near the self-proclaimed caliphate’s capital Raqqa. (Image via TheBlaze/Google Maps)

On Monday, activists and Kurdish officials said the town was cleared of IS fighters, who once held nearly half of the town.

A group of Syrian who shelter in Turkey due to clashes in their country, enter in Kobani after they receive permission on January 30, 2015. (Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

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

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 9:09am
And now Obama will crow of ‘his’ success against ISIS: I wonder what deal he struck with them?
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- Proverbs17-12NLT
  -Jan. 31, 2015 at 10:09am
  A little half black barry soetoro grew up in Kenya being taught by his father to HATE America, He became a muslim and loved the news of the brothers attacking Israel etc. He loved al qaeda, he loved when they bombed innocent people. He ended up in America with a narrative and he pursued it with passion. He became a community dis organizer, studied our constitution so he knew what he could get away with, he attended the Blackest White HATING church he could find. He became friends with America HATING Terrorists like bill ayers. He changed his name to a big bad sounding barack hussein 0bama to match his ideology. Now he’s our Black Hitler and every single action he takes is always against anything to do with our History and sides on Everything America is not. 0bama is a terrorist cell at the highest level, his actions will hurt America for decades to come, they might even be the destruction of America as we know it just like the 0bama’s PROMISED.
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  - TheCopt
    -Jan. 31, 2015 at 10:54am
    Wrong. He didn’t become muslimm he was born muslim since his father is.
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  - Proverbs17-12NLT
    -Jan. 31, 2015 at 10:58am
    Thecopt- Your right, I typed that wrong. Thanks, I stand corrected.
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- MysteryofBabylon
  -Jan. 31, 2015 at 9:15am
  This “Arab Spring” sure leaves a mess. Thanks Obama for building that walking dead nightmare.
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- paulwbrown
  -Jan. 31, 2015 at 9:31am
  Just think what airstrikes would be doing if we were doing them in a substantial number and if we had supplied the Kurds with all of the armament and supplies that they actually needed and asked for.
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- amandahan120585
  -Jan. 31, 2015 at 10:22am
  LMAO..Obama isn’t capable of swatting a fly by alone destroying ISIS…Look at Obama’s polling on foreign policy…He’s about as low as he can go.
  His threats are meaningless…he is meaningless and his presidency is that of a massive failure.
  Shock and Awe to Obama…is having tea & crumpets with the very muslin brothers Obama is trying so hard to protect.
  Obama has destroyed our economy. Everybody I know is underemployed. I have no hope of making more money in the near future. My expenses keep rising. My health insurance is up to $400/month. Before the govt touched it, it was around $200/month. My car insurance, which is still private enterprise, is thankfully only $25/month (from Insurance Panda). Please, President Obama! Don’t try to socialize car insurance too!
  Again, he turned victory in Iraq into the mess we see now. He is doing the same thing in Afghanistan.
  I rooted for him. I am saddened by the non-stop lies and spin. I am saddened by the disaster that his Presidency has been. I wanted him to be the best President in our history, for so many reasons. He has likely been our worst.
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- usfreeman
  -Jan. 31, 2015 at 9:53am
  Winning battles and losing wars…..because “0″ won’t admit the truth.
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- HottsGateOutfitter
  -Jan. 31, 2015 at 9:30am
  Snow- Kobani is the gateway from Turkey into Syria. Preparations are being made for the Syrian invasion by the west. How much you wanna bet that ISIS will be “defeated” in other key strategic locations once formerly controlled by Assad?
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- progressiveslayer
  -Jan. 31, 2015 at 10:53am
  amandahan120585 . His threats are meaningless…he is meaningless and his presidency is that of a massive failure.
  True his threats are meaningless but he said he would fundamentally transform America and the POS did just that. You mentioned it yourself, socialized medicine is part of it, he’s kept our southern border open for anyone and he’s releasing terrorists from GITMO routinely. He’ll close GITMO and he’ll give millions of our tax dollars to Cuba for whatever he doesn’t really need a reason since he’s a POS tyrant.
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- MysteryofBabylon
  -Jan. 31, 2015 at 9:40am
  Turkey is sneakier than the House of Saud, so probably somethings are going on behind the scenes. Second party hearsay and what is true reality can be quite different.
  Putin is at least watching closely, that you can bet.
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- JohnofOregon
  -Jan. 31, 2015 at 11:42am
  This is a propaganda victory for islamist and obama. While this dinky little town was destroyed, obamas and democrat ally Iran has taken control of large portion of iraq, taken over libya, taken over egypt where the islamist have destroyed many of the historic sites in the name of gihad and they have been preparing for conflict with jordan.
  Liberal democrats and obama is a muslim brotherhoods best friend.
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- gyro
  -Jan. 31, 2015 at 10:47am
  look at what is left of the city — the west lost again
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- John 1776
  -Jan. 31, 2015 at 11:16am
  He will probably offer them reparations and give them a bunch of our money.
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- wigone
  -Jan. 31, 2015 at 11:13am
  PR = Propaganda
  …we’re all Tools!
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foobared
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 9:13am
And the numbers of jihadis/islamists killed by Kurdish female fighters was staggering. And that means no allah and no virgins. Those women can shoot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhzNjcYxw6I
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- 1FreeVoice
  -Jan. 31, 2015 at 11:12am
  They know what is in store for them if their side looses. No mercy, no hope. They aren’t showing mercy either; they are fighting for their lives and the futures of any surviving family members.
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Gonzo
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 9:15am
Hooray! We saved a pile of rubble! I more interested in dead Islamists than Syrian towns.
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- magicrat
  -Jan. 31, 2015 at 9:26am
  That’s not a pile of rubble, it’s New Detroit.
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- DLV
  -Jan. 31, 2015 at 10:30am
  Gonzo any victory for the Kurds I’d great in my book. They’re great fighters and one of the few people actually standing against Isis. They deserve huge credit along with our pilots.
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SilentReader
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 11:06am
You can thank the Obama-Clinton-Kerry regime for creating ISIS by arming the al Qaeda in Libya through a third party in Operation Zero Footprint to get rid of Gaddhafi, and by arming the al Qaeda and al Nusra terrorist rebels in Syria to get rid of Assad. The fact that 4 Americans died in Libya and 65,000 Libyan civilians died and 200,000+ Syrians died horrific deaths mean nothing to them in their urgency to “protect!”
The Progressives have been arming the vile Islamofascist enemy since Carter, and since they armed bin Laden in Afghanistan to give Russia it’s Vietnam, as globalist oligarch Bzrezinski boasted. Clinton-Albright (not her real name)-NATO then went on to arm the al Qaeda and Mujahedeen in Bosnia and brought them into Bosnia on NATO planes. These same vile terrorists went on to murder 2,300 Christian Orthodox Serbs in their small villages in and around Srebrenica. Of course, you didn’t hear one word about this in the criminal MSM at the time, who gave Clinton a pass for all his criminal and treasonous activities in Yugoslavia when they sided with the KLA Muslim Albanian terrorists and the terror regime of Muslim Nazi Alijah Izetbegovic in Bosnia and bombed the Serbs four separate times, culminating with the illegal bombing of Serbia in 1999 where they bombed under General Wesley Clark (Bozo) a Radio/TV station killing many journalists, bridges, hospitals and schools.
Hey, the Progressives have been arming this vile enemy for decades now, with impunity!
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- SilentReader
  -Jan. 31, 2015 at 11:18am
  When are you going to understand that without our oligarch’s arming, and collaborating with, these vile 7th century savages that they would have never gotten this far? The globalist oligarchs are as much our enemy as the monsters they create, like ISIS and boko haram, by arming them are!
  Shutting down their global organizations that the oligarchs hide behind to commit their crimes with impunity against all of us is necessary to stop them. They won’t be stopped until we stop them. They have the military industrial complex behind them and they have become insane with their ultimate power to mow down anyone who opposes them. This is the same military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about. They will do anything for NATO expansion in their urge to control every sovereign nation and to turn us into their slaves.
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Bigun
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 9:21am
I guess they will now see Obama as a turn-coat…..and threaten/target him.
I read the earlier this week that they threatened to cut his head off in the White House.
Poor guy ….his own people are finally seeing him for who he really is and turning against him……his fellow Democrats as well as his fellow Muslim’s who are followers of the “religion of peace”.
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kickagrandma
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 9:11am
they OWN the wh and this administration?
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- foobared
  -Jan. 31, 2015 at 9:26am
  Egypt is getting ready to cook off again too; 0′s MoHoBro just had a sit down with State, then declared open jihad again. Tranquil!
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BBQ-Freak
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 9:10am
Will AlGorezeera America News condemn this action against the Isis “freedom fighters?”
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PoliticalTruths.Net
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 11:29am
I got to “an historic” and was so distracted by the poor grammar that I forget what the article was actually about.
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chuckwalla
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 11:28am
ISIS is a bunch of Pu$$les. They always move away from pressure and we see that here. They came up against real warriors, the Peshmerga and folded after months of trying. They were tossed out of Syria, Raqqah isn’t that much of a prize. Its easy to kill the helpless and the bound, not so good against genuine fighters. A battalion of Marines could wipe these clowns off the face of the earth. If only we had good leadership….
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Scrooples
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 11:25am
Their ‘admission’ is just slightly bigger than the town of Kobani. There’s nothing there and never has been.
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This_username_was_not_taken
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 11:08am
……Admit something huge for the first time…
That they are following the koran and they are doing their terrorist acts in the name of their religion?
Silly me, I forgot for a moment what site I was reading. That would be big news to anyone reading MSDNC, the NYT et al.
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 9:43am
Was Kobani where John McCain did the photo shoot with ISIS?
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- Eastinfection
  -Jan. 31, 2015 at 10:25am
  i thought that shoot was done in Hawaii?
  https://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/mccain-obama.jpg
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- foobared
  -Jan. 31, 2015 at 12:02pm
  Yes. And the Svaboda Ukraine meet and greet was in the same time frame.
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obersaber
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 10:55am
Cement dust in the Arab spring does not smell like victory.
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Dauntless
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 10:21am
Understanding the landscape around Kobani and ISIS having few supply routes …this was easy pickings for our air campaign….this story should have been written six months ago.
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bigbear_awake
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 10:16am
I’m sure our king told them to make the claim so he looks good and has been taken care them with air power
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RAMJR
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 10:04am
And with the beheadings by ISIS, ISIS, IS or Islamic States (all the same organization), and their demands from countries that have terrorists captured, as well as MILLIONS of dollars, one country is now telling them something, more countries probably should:
‘Jordan stands up to ISIS: ‘Kill our pilot and we’ll execute ALL your prisoners’’:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2932702/Now-ISIS-threatened-prisoners-executed-Jordan-says-hang-Islamic-State-prisoners-terror-group-killed-pilot-hostage.html
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tomjoad
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 9:54am
A setback for Obama.
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barber2
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 12:02pm
Just another chance to Blame America and all of those ‘ evil ‘ Western infidels. Another jihadi recruitment drive.
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MrKnowItAll
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 12:02pm
Capture as many of them as we can. Surgically remove their arms and legs, blind them, deafen them, insert a feeding tube, build a public arena. Then have every one of them lie in a bed surrounded by pigs. for as long as they live, which could be pretty long. They are not afraid to die. We need alternatives that will put Fear in them. I can almost guarantee my system will work. Let them live in Hell in front of the entire World. Before they are Taken to their Virgins.
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Ronb39339
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 11:03am
These Kurds deserve their own country independent of iraq.
They seem to be the only ones fighting for iraq & against isis.
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Indagila
-Jan. 31, 2015 at 10:59am
Duh! And they say there is no peace through superior fire power….
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