Kurdish forces have been celebrating after claiming to have driven militants from the self-proclaimed Islamic State out of Kobani in Syria.<br /><br /> A British-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the town had been retaken. <br /><br /> A Kurdish flag was seen flying over Kobani, with jets in the air above.<br /><br /> The Syrian state news agency SANA cited local sources in saying the “terrorist organisation Daesh” had been expelled from the town.<br /><br /> But some ISIL fighters took to social media to say the battle was still raging, and in Washington the US State Department also said it was not over.<br /><br /> In a statement issued by the US Central Command, the American military praised “courageous” anti-ISIL forces who now controlled “about 90 percent of the town”.<br /><br /> The statement went on to say that “ISIL’s failure in Kobani has denied them one of their strategic objectives”.<br /><br /> The Kurdish town close to the Turkish border has been on the front line of the battle against the extremist group
