Daesh militant group has acknowledged for the first time that its fighters have been defeated in the Syrian town of Kobani and vowed to attack the town again, ABC News reported Saturday.
In a video released by the pro-Daesh Aamaq News Agency, two fighters said the airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition were the main reason why the fighters were forced to withdraw from Kobani.
On Monday, activists and Kurdish officials said the town was almost cleared of Daesh fighters, who once held nearly half of the town.
One Daesh fighter vowed to defeat the main Kurdish militia in Syria, the People's Protection Units known as the YPG, calling them "rats."
The failure to capture Kobani was a major blow to the extremists. Their hopes for an easy victory dissolved into a costly siege under withering airstrikes by coalition forces and an assault by Kurdish militiamen.