Kurdish forces are on the verge of taking full control of the fiercely-contested Syrian city of Kobane after recapturing several key areas from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Syrian activists and a Kurdish official said.

Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith reports from Turkey.

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