You're reading: Associated Press: Kobani still a ghost town, months after liberation from IS

SURUC, Turkey - The battle for the Syrian border town of Kobani was a watershed in the war against the Islamic State group - Syrian Kurdish forces fought the militants in rubble-strewn streets for months as U.S. aircraft pounded the extremists from the skies until ultimately expelling them from the town earlier this year.

Read the story here.