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And no one seemed able to stop them. but that all changed in a little kurdish town called kobani. isis fighters attacked kobani with everything they had. the battles were street to street. but the kurds refused to surrender. >> this battle of kobani ended up being a massive turning point in the overall campaign. and so from that moment we had a little toehold in syria to begin to fight back against what was the heart of the isis caliphate. >> reporter: i was with the kurdish fighters in kobani, ...

State in the middle east. they called it the caliphate. and no one seemed able to stop them. but that all changed in a little kurdish town called kobani. isis fighters attacked kobani with everything they had. the battles were street to street. but the kurds refused to surrender. >> this battle of kobani ended up being a massive turning point in the overall campaign. and so from that moment we had a little toe hold in syria to twin so fight back against what was the heart of the isis caliphate. ...

Something extraordinary happened when isis reached one little town called kobani, northern syria. kobani was right on the border separating turkey and syria. the world media and hundreds of syrian refugees watched helplessly from the turkish side as black-clad isis fighters advanced on the town. i couldnt believe what i was witnessing. right in front of me, isis fighters were move unopposed and completely out in the open. these people are extremely frustrated by whats happening here. they see is...

They have lost thousands. >> what kind of toll did they inflict on isis? >> its in the tens of thousands of isis killed. >> for the allies, kobani was a turning point. >> every morning id come in and id be looking at a map in my briefing. i could see where isis colors had been taking over that map, suddenly its moving the other direction. >> and that was so important, because it really kind of broke the psychology. isis tried very hard to take some place and been beaten. i think after that we kn...

Forces that fought side by side with the kurds. >> why kobani? why did you start in kobani? >> thats the first place that we noticed, someones fighting back. and it was the people of kobani. >> what kind of partners did you find them to be? >> committed. dedicated. formidable. >> and what started in kobani quickly expanded. the first patch of 50 american advisers sent in to help the kurds soon grew to 2,000. the u.s. military trusted their allies so completely that the kurds were soon calling in...

That kobani would be liberated one day like it is today." what do you think history will write about kobani, about you and your fighters? "i am proud of what happened. this is history." even if nobody writes about it, who can deny what happened, who can deny our martyrs?"even if n who can deny what happened, who can deny our martyrs?" to understand what the kurds sacrificed, you only need to go to the edge of kobani. theres a graveyard there of those who died fighting isis. the kurds lost 11,000...

>> azima was happy to see me. >> you remember this place? it was very different. last time we came through the walls. this time through the door. wow. >> town hall was back up and running. holding a meeting of the womens rights committee. but no ones forgotten what happened here. >> so i think there was a shooting position over there. there were bullet holes here. >> azima then took me to another part of kobani. its scarred from the fight against isis, and so is she. shes saying since we saw her...

Their own objectives. they stood their ground and fought. i wanted to get inside to see if the resistance had a chance. i left the safety of turkey and sprinted across no mans land directly into kobani. firefights were under way. isis had already captured more than half the town. the people of kobani were trying to hang on to what they had left. these brave resistance fighters were ethnic kurds, a minority group of millions in the middle east that has been striving for independence for centuries...

I wanted to go back to kobani, back to where it all began, to catch up with an old friend. how are you? azima was happy to see me. you remember this place? it was very different. last time we came in through the walls. this time, through the door. town hall was back up and running. holding a meeting of the womens rights committee. but no ones forgotten what happened here. so i think there was a shooting position over there. there were bullet holes here. azima then took me to another part of koba...

>> two. >> two american soldiers in uniform have died? >> one coalition, one u.s. two. they have lost thousands. >> what kind of toll did they inflict on isis? >> its in the tens of thousands of isis killed. >> for the allies, kobani was a turning point. >> every morning i would come in and i would be looking at a map in my briefing. i could see where isis colors had been taking over that map, suddenly its moving in the other direction. that was so important. it really kind of broke the psycholo...