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New footage shows Kurdish fighters on the streets of Kobani, celebrating victory after driving Islamic State fighters out of the contested Syrian town. Pavithra George reports.
Syrian Kurds hope to return home but fear for security, as months of fighting has caused massive destruction in strategic border town of Kobani. Nathan Frandino reports.
Dozens of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters head to Syrian town of Kobani to battle Islamic State militants. Rough Cut. (No reporter narration)
Images of Turkish fighter jets taking off from a military base in Diyarbakir to carry out strikes against positions and targets of Kurdish fighters in northern Syria. According to a statement from the Ministry of Defence, "Turkey carried out air strikes this evening at 23:00 (20:00 GMT) in the regions of Tel Rifat, Cizire and Derik in northern Syria and destroyed 30 targets". Since Sunday evening, Ankara has been carrying out a campaign of drone bombings, which left at least nine people dead on Thursday, against PKK and YPG targets in Syria, in retaliation for the attack that wounded two policemen in Ankara on Sunday. IMAGES