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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, men and women on the front lines. that's how i first met azima. she was one of the kurdish commander...

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. >> reporter: i was with the kurdish fighters in kobani, men and women on the front lines. that's how...

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 couldn't 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 what's happening here. they see isis fighters in their villages, and they say, if the americans really want to bomb isis, they're no...

They have lost thousands. >> what kind of toll did they inflict on isis? >> it's in the tens of thousands of isis killed. >> for the allies, kobani was a turning point. >> every morning i'd come in and i'd be looking at a map in my briefing. i could see where isis colors had been taking over that map, suddenly it's 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 knew what it took to beat them. >> four years later, it was all over. for the kurds it was a time ...

Forces that fought side by side with the kurds. >> why kobani? why did you start in kobani? >> that's the first place that we noticed, someone's 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 american air strikes. the kurds not only did what they promised, they were willing to fight and d...