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A Kurdish marksman looks over a destroyed area of Kobani, Syria, January 30, 2015 (source)

In a recent interview , IS fighter says the reason they withdrew is that because of constant airstrikes no buildings suitable to hide there were left. Judging by this photo, this may be quite (or somewhat) true. Tactics of heavy bombing used here may be unsuitable in bigger heavily populated cities.

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The World Bank estimates that only 3.9% of housing in Kobane was destroyed.

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