YPG Press Centre reported that the areas of Bocak, Xirab Hişk and Derfilît in Kobanê town of West Kurdistan, Rojava, have been liberated from ISIS gangs.

Recalling that the Kobanê resistance against the occupation attempt of ISIS gangs continued on the 210th day, YPG Press Centre reported that the operation launched by YPG/YPJ (People's/Women's Defense Units) in southeast Kobanê was going on since April 8.

According to the statement, gang groups have been inflicted severe blows in an offensive launched by YPG/YPJ yesterday morning. Defense Units have ended the ISIS occupation in Bocak and Xirab Hişk -both of which involve two villages- and Derfilît, the strategic Çelebi cement plant and 2 quarries.

The village of Gocekmetê which has also been liberated in the operation continues facing attacks by the ISIS gangs that attempted a suicide attack with a bomb-laden vehicle near the village yesterday, but were immediately responded by YPG fighters who blew the vehicle up with militants inside.

Six members of the gangs groups were killed in the last 24 hours of the operation, while their bodies, arms and munitions were also seized.