1,500 Syrian Kurdish refugees return to Kobani from Turkey

Kurdish peshmerga units, aided with air support from the United States along with convoys of fighters from the Kurdish Republic of Northern Iraq, managed to win back the town in January from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Some 200,000 Kobani residents had rapidly fled to Turkey's neighboring town of Suruç, Şanlıurfa province in one week in early October as ISIL intensified its presence.

The refugees crossed the border from the Mürşitpınar gate, located in the southern Turkish district of Suruç, after officials checked their identity papers. A registration system for the refugees was made by Turkey's emergency body, AFAD.

The refugees are allowed to cross back into northern Syria at least three days every week.