[71] The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and some Free Syrian Army (FSA) factions (under the Euphrates Volcano joint operations room), Peshmerga of the Kurdistan Regional Government, and American and US-allied Arab militaries' airstrikes began to recapture Kobane.

[103] On the same day, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said that more than 130,000 Syrian Kurds fled across the border into Turkey, escaping an advance by IS jihadists.

[108] On 27 September, US-led coalition planes bombed the area around Kobanî for the first time, targeting positions in the village of Alishar, 4 kilometers from the city, which was used as a command and control center by IS.

[140] Throughout the day, fighting raged for control of the Maqtala al-Jadida and Qani Arab districts,[144] which ended with IS forces capturing both neighborhoods, as well as the industrial zone of Kobanî.

However, despite the airstrikes, the jihadists soon launched a new assault in the eastern part of Kobanî, as IS reinforcements arrived,[150] allowing them to push 50–70 meters west of the industrial zone, capturing the market area.

[167] IS seized the water wells on the outskirts of Kobanî, although the lack of diesel due to the siege already rendered them useless for the Kurdish fighters and civilians in the city.

[180] The next day, Kurdish commander Baharin Kandal told the BBC News that Islamic State fighters had retreated from most of the town, with two areas of continued resistance remaining.

[197] The next day, IS released another video with British hostage John Cantlie, in which he claims that the city of Kobanî was mostly under IS control, with only a few pockets of Kurdish resistance remaining.

[201][202] On 5 November, the Iraqi Kurdish regional government in Erbil delivered several truckloads of ammunition that secretly crossed into Kobanî via Turkey, to help the town's defenders.

[206] Also, a very important military leader for IS, according to a report by SOHR, said that IS militants were shocked and demoralized by the "fierce resistance" put up by YPG fighters, as they had expected victory within a few days of storming the town.

[209] Two days later, Kurdish fighters captured six buildings which, according to the director at SOHR Rami Abdulrahman, "were in a strategic location in the town's north, close to Security Square where the main municipal offices are based."

[213] On 28 November, YPG took the al-Baladia and Azadi yard, as well as Souq al-Hal and the governmental square after IS fighters pulled back from these positions, while an IS reconnaissance drone was shot down above the town.

IS deployed reinforcements to the southern and eastern parts of the Kobanî Canton, as they wanted to prevent YPG and FSA forces from reaching the de facto IS capital of Raqqa.

[259] On the next day, it was confirmed that all of the remaining IS fighters in Qara Qozak had either been killed or surrendered, leaving YPG and FSA forces in full control of the town.

[269] Early on 25 April, after three days of repeated IS attacks on Mistras failed, Kurdish forces and their allies launched an all-out offensive on Sarrin from several fronts, backed by reinforcements, to dislodge IS.

[275] The Turkish Army mounted a rescue operation across the border to evacuate its soldiers from the Tomb of Suleyman Shah, an exclave of Turkey south of Kobanî.

Conditions in Turkish refugee camps were poor, so residents started back to Kobanî as soon as IS was expelled from the city, placing additional pressure on the food, water, and damaged utilities.

The fighting strengthened ties between the YPG and the FSA (Free Syrian Army) by establishing a viable source of ground forces for the American-led coalition, and dispelled the notion that the Kurds were Assad supporters.

[295] There were reports of strife and infighting in the ranks of IS in the wake of their defeat at Kobanî, with foreign fighters of different nationalities turning on each other under the strain of the confrontation, with accusations of treachery.

Meanwhile, soon the Turkish daily newspaper Hurriyet reported that Barzani has asked Turkey to allow Peshmarga to pass through its territory to enter Kobane and prevent the town from falling.

[306] Free Syrian Army (FSA) – Colonel Malik el-Kurdi, one of the commanders of the FSA, criticized the U.S. administration over airdropping weapons to the armed Kurdish factions: "It is disgusting politics for the U.S. to deliver weapons to the Kurds who have been fighting ISIS for only a month in a small town, while depriving the mainstream opposition for more than three years from any military and strategic aid while resisting the Assad regime that commits any kind of war crime.

[308] The Syrian Foreign Ministry also said that any Turkish military activity on its soil would be considered an act of aggression,[309] and reacted furiously to Peshmerga troops being deployed to Kobanî, claiming this was evidence of Turkey's "conspiratorial role" in Syria.

[310] Iran – Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham stressed the importance of supporting the Syrian government and nation in their fight against the terrorists in the region and called for supplying humanitarian aid to civilians and refugees.

She denounced the international community's indifference toward the fate of the people in Kobani and said, "The Islamic Republic of Iran will soon send humanitarian aid to residents and refugees in this area through the Syrian government.

"[311] Foreign Ministry also criticized the "passivity of the international community" regarding the besieged Syrian border town of Kobani and said the world should help President Bashar al-Assad confront "the terrorists."

The comments by foreign ministry spokeswoman Afkham came shortly after Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Kobani was on the verge of falling to jihadists fighting for ISIS.

One op-ed by conservative Iranian news website Khabar Online has asked Major General Qasem Soleimani to help defend Kobani.

The op-ed cited reports that Soleimani and Iran were involved in liberating the Iraqi town of Amerli and had supplied arms to Kurdish forces in Iraq to fight IS.

[323] US officials indicated to CNN that they were not concerned if Kobanî fell and that the US goals in Syria are "not to save cities and towns, but to go after ISIS' senior leadership, oil refineries and other infrastructure that would curb the terror group's ability to operate—particularly in Iraq.

[324] However, in late October 2014, The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. officials had decided Kobanî was "too symbolically important to lose" and stepped up efforts to prevent IS from capturing the border town, including covertly coordinating with local Kurdish forces, despite opposition from Turkey.