article_snippet: Six months ago Kobane was a city in panic as the Kurds were desperately fleeing ISIS forces as the Kurds bared down on the border town, fearful that the Kurds would be slaughtered like the Yazidis before the Yazidis if the settlement was overrun by the fanatical jihadis.
article_snippet: Now the terrorists have gone, beaten back into the desert by Kurdish forces and coalition airstrikes, and the residents can return to the residents .
article_snippet: Civilians forced to flee across the border into Turkey are now returning home.
article_snippet: A Syrian Kurdish woman sweeps rubble out of what is left of A Syrian Kurdish woman home after ISIS fighters fled the city of Kobane.
article_snippet: Making the most of it: Just six months ago this Kurdish boy, along with thousands of other Kurds, were desperately fleeing Kobane, fearful thousands of other Kurds would be slaughtered if the city was overrun.
article_snippet: Now thousands of other Kurds can return, but little of thousands of other Kurds previous home remains .
article_snippet: Homecoming: After four months of fierce fighting the Kurds, who were facing near extinction at the hands of ISIS, are able to return to what is left of four months of fierce fighting the Kurds, who were facing near extinction at the hands of ISIS home town and begin rebuilding what is left of their home town .
article_snippet: Flattened: A girl rides in a trailer being towed into Kobane by tractor as rows of levelled houses can be seen in the background.
article_snippet: All gone: A Kurdish man looks out over the destroyed city of Kobane from the balcony of A Kurdish man bullet-riddled home, just over a month after the last ISIS fighters fled for the last ISIS fighters strongholds along the Euphrates River .
article_snippet: All the Turkish Prime Minister has left: A Kurdish man walks back into A Kurdish man home after six months spent hiding from ISIS across the border in Turkey.
article_snippet: On A Kurdish man back A Kurdish man carries everything A Kurdish man owns wrapped into a rug .
article_snippet: Back to business: A baker goes back to work amid the shattered remain of Kobane as residents go about trying to rebuild residents previous lives .
article_snippet: What remains: A Kurdish boy walks down the stairwell of A Kurdish boy home in Kobane, littered with rubble and a keyboard.
highlights_snippet: In September last year the city of Kobane emptied as residents fled for residents lives ahead of a huge ISIS offensive .
  
highlights_snippet: Residents are returning after ISIS troops fled in January, but as these images show, little of Residents home remains .