Inside The Battle For Kobane

Inside Kobane: A City In Complete Ruins - And The One Secret Hospital Left Standing Attempting To Put Back The Pieces Bit By Bit -- Daily Mail

* The clinic is the only one left standing in the war-ravaged town that has become a symbol for Syrian civil war
* The walls are splattered with blood as the small team of medics barely have time to clean and sterilise
* Doctors are sometimes forced to operate by torchlight since power generators regularly fail

Like much of this battered Syrian Kurdish border town on the front lines in the battle against the Islamic State group, most of its hospitals and clinics now lie in ruins. Only one is still working - but its location is kept secret for fear it could be targeted by the militants.

Inside the tiny field clinic, saving lives and dealing with horrifying wounds of war comes first, and concerns such as keeping operating rooms sterile and cleaning up after surgery are on the back burner.

Blood is splattered across most of the beds and floors, and a small team of only three doctors and five nurses are providing the only remaining medical services in the town. They are sometimes forced to operate by torchlight since power generators regularly fail.

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More News On The Battle For Kobane

ISIS degraded in Kobane as coalition airstrikes increase -- Rudaw
New group of Iraqi peshmergas enters Syrian Kurdish town -- Reuters
IS jihadists suffer heavy losses in Syria's Kobane -- AFP
ISIS In Kobani And Raqqa Facing Huge Losses: Mounting Toll And Injury Comes After Kurds Stepped Up Offensive -- IBTimes
Kurds Defend Kobani From Islamic State -- AP
INSIDE KOBANI: War clinic treats anti-IS fighters -- AP
INSIDE KOBANI: Kurdish women on the frontline -- AP
Family on the frontline: The father and teenage daughter battling the ISIS onslaught together in Kobane -- Daily Mail/AP