Tens of thousands return home to a destroyed Kobane 

After IS's retreat, locals return to Kobane to find crushed homes and basic infrastructure lacking, but are in no hurry to become refugees again 

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KOBANE - After Islamic State fighters vacated this strategic border town following one of the longest battles in the Syrian war, it took four months for the four Beko sisters and their families to feel it was safe to return from refuge in Turkey. Now the young women, two of them cradling four-month-old babies, stand on the porch of their two-story home surveying a scene of colossal destruction. 

Tens of Thousands Return Home to a Destroyed Kobane by Thavam Ratna