Kobane as a town is destroyed to a point that rebuilding it where it is (at some time in the future ) would be less practical than moving it a few kilometres.
Militarily the town worked as a so called honey pot trap to ISIS. Whenever they occupied a building it would be targeted for an air strike. The best of the ISIS fighters and materiel were lost here.
The Kurdish led resistance remains ferocious. Allied with the Kurds are many Sunni Arabs including Free Syrian Army contingents, Chaldean /Assyrian Christians and many others notably including anti-ISIS Islamists. Gender, age , religion, background and ethnicity are of little relevance to the Maoist orientated YPG (the Armed wing of the PDY) . There is complexity in what Maoism actually means in the context of the Syrian Civil War. It includes the formation of Cantons (Communes), a high degree of gender equality and religious tolerance. On the flip side it includes a level of democracy but only within a tight authoritarian Marxist-Leninist framework. A key question though is whether or not such a framework is desirable in Northern Syria as an alternative to radical Islamism or yet another strong man. The formula for winning the peace maybe different to the formula for winning a war. This question is for the people of Northern Syria to determine at some time in the future. For now there remains an ongoing conflict with no clear end in sight.
I note that the PKK and YPG are working to establish an autonomous Yazidi region in Iraq along similar lines to the Rodjava administration in Northern Syria. The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq opposes this development ..... there are fractures everywhere ....... but the alliances will hold together as a matter of necessity in the face of both ISIS and (current) Turkish self interests.
