Kurds Defeat Isis at Kobani

I am proud to have gotten to know several Kurds who believed ISIS could be defeated at Kobami. I have backed many long-shots in my life, but have never felt so completely on the side of any group who was so severely outnumbered and given no chance of winning. I had a vision that they would win that I believe came from God.

Jon the Nazarite

The U.S. has conducted 708 airstrikes in Kobani since September—the vast majority of its 954 strikes against Islamic State in Syria. Seventeen of these strikes came on Sunday and Monday.

For much of the fight in Kobani, the U.S. has been in close communication with the Kurdish fighters trying to defend the town. A senior military official said that has allowed the U.S. to precisely coordinate its airstrikes.

“When they call and say: ‘We need you to drop ordnance,’ we know exactly what they are talking…