Following months of intense fighting, Kurdish fighters and volunteer forces have finally driven ISIL terrorists out of the strategic Syrian border town of Kobani. The fierce battle there is said to have claimed the lives of more than 16-hundred people most of whom ISIL terrorists. Press TV's Verenia Keet has more from Istanbul:

Kurdish forces are still advancing in areas around Kobani a day after driving ISIL out of the Syrian town.

The Turkish president reportedly opposes the creation of a Kurdish government in northern Syria.

Syrian Kurdish fighters take full control of the northern border town of Kobani from ISIL.

Syrian Kurds have retaken a strategic position from ISIL in the border town of Kobani.