Pounding: With intense fighting between Kurdish fighters and ISIS militants a daily occurrence in Kobane, simply getting from one destroyed street to another appears to have become an incredibly difficult business
Inside Kobane's Fight To The Death: Incredible Satellite Images Reveal The Scale Of Destruction After A Month Of U.S. Airstrikes Intense Street Battles With ISIS -- Daily Mail
* Before and after photographs show dramatic changes that have taken place in Kobane over the past few weeks
* Hundreds of buildings have been destroyed and many roads are impassable due to rubble and jihadist roadblocks
* Outside Kobane empty fields have been turned into refugee camps and highways are full of ISIS' ambush points
* Images emerge as fierce street battles broke out inside Kobane this morning, as ISIS fanatics once again storm city
Satellite images have captured scenes of destruction in Kobane as sustained American airstrikes and four weeks of intense fighting between Kurdish resistance fighters and Islamic State militants take their toll on the besieged Syrian city.
The before and after images show how in just one month hundreds of buildings have been levelled and a large number of roads rendered completely impassable by huge craters and mountains of rubble created since ISIS militants first attempted to capture the Kurdish city in mid-September.
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My Comment: After weeks of intense bombing .... I am actually surprised that a number of buildings are still standing.
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