Kurds battling the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant terrorist group in Kobani reportedly made advances Tuesday in the south of the flashpoint Syrian town on the border with Turkey

Kurds battling the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant terrorist group in Kobani reportedly made advances Tuesday in the south of the flashpoint Syrian town on the border with Turkey.
  
Top Kurdish officials told AFP their fighters were advancing "street by street", voicing confidence that the ISIL would soon be ejected.
  
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights backed up the report. "The (Kurdish) People's Protection Units (YPG) recaptured streets and buildings in the south of Kobani, after a fierce battle against the ISIL that began yesterday (Monday) evening," said the Britain-based Observatory.
  
The monitor also said the YPG and its Iraqi peshmerga backers shelled ISIL positions on Tuesday elsewhere in Kobani, which is known in Arabic as Ain al-Arab.
  
On Monday night, the US-led coalition that launched air strikes in Syria in September hit ISIL positions in Kobani’s southeast.

Syria's Kurds are being backed by Iraqi peshmerga fighters in their bid to reclaim the town from terrorists hands.

Syrian Kurdish chief Saleh Muslim said the YPG were advancing "street by street" and that they would "recapture the town in a very short time". And the Kurds' top field commander in Kobane, Narin Afrin, a 40-year-old woman, said by telephone: "We have been resisting for 56 days in very difficult conditions."