a bbc team enters the team of kobane. >> driving the local state from theory came at tremendous cost. hundreds of coalition air strikes, which have flattened most of the town. >>> egypt frees a journalist. >> peter was arrested with otherses and they also deserve to be free. peter won't rest until they're released from prison. >>> the first large scale trials against ebola are getting underway in liberia. >>> and the former head of the imf goes on trial, accused of helping to procure women for sex parties. >>> hello. welcome to bbc news. the syrian city of kobane has been libertied after four months of intense street fighting and air strikes. kurdish fighters finally drove the jihadists out with the help of allied forces. since august the u.s.-led coalition has launched nearly 2,000 air strikes against i.s. targets, with most of the focus being against kobane and east. but i.s. still controls swaths of lands in northern and western iraq. symptom estimate the extremist group has taken over almost 40,000 square kilometers. 8 million people are believed to be living under partial or full

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a bbc team including our correspondent, qinton summerville have been to kobani and found the city has been torn apart. >> reporter: every street every inch of kobani is testament to the apocalypse that the islamic state brought here. for four months they faced each other, sometimes just yards apart, and there are still plenty of dangers here. unexploded mortars, booby traps but i.s. is gone. those left standing have trophies from the fight. these men say, i.s. used car bombs packed with explosives to target our checkpoints. they're reeling. their victory came unexpectedly. the outcome is a shock. the islamic state here at least, has been beaten. most of its people fled kobani. those who stayed draped curtains across the road to hide out of sight from i.s. snipers. i met one of the families who re refusedre refused to leave. kasima and her 12 kirn and grandchild stayed throughout the worst of the fighting. >> we faced difficulties. we were hungry we were thirsty, but we are no different from the fighters. they stayed and we stayed. we were in the basement. when they had food, they shar

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