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Kobani, Syria - 20 November 2014
1. Tracking shot as Kurdish YPG (Kurdish acronym for People's Protection Units) fighters run past a suspected Islamic State group (IS) sniper position
2. YPG fighter inside building, pointing to the direction in which the fellow fighter next to him should fire
3. View through a hole in the wall at street below, protective sheets stretched to obscure the view in the road and pan across the damaged buildings
4. YPG fighter fires several rounds from his assault rifle
5. Kurdish fighter aims a grenade launcher ++MUTE++
6. Wide of city centre buildings destroyed during weeks of heavy fighting for Kobani ++ MUTE++
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7. Wide of no man's land between the warring sides, IS held territory on far side, a wreckage of a truck Kurdish fighters say is failed suicide truck bomb, lying on its side
8. War plane in the sky
9. YPG fighter Pozul (last name not given) aiming rifle towards IS dominated territory
10. Shot along rifle barrel through hole in wall firing position
11. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Pozul (last name not given), YPG fighter:
"We now control about 80 percent of the city. There is about 20 percent under their (IS group) control. There are just small pockets of them (IS fighters) now: five here, half a dozen there. They are scattered so as to give us the impression that there are a lot of them, but there are not."
12. Farhad Kobani, a YPG media liaison worker runs past a possible sniper alley
13. Remains of what Kurdish fighters say was IS group suicide truck bomber's vehicle, amid destruction
14. Unexploded mortar round embedded in road
15. Car crushed by fallen concrete in a garage
16. Wide of destruction and remains of a suicide bomber's vehicle
17. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Farhad Kobani, media liaison for the YPG:
"Most of the clashes happened here because they (IS) wanted to control the Mershed Pinar (main gate to Turkey). There were more than five car bomb attacks in the 300 metres around here. One of them was this truck (indicates wreckage) and most of the suicide vehicles were big trucks - this one had armour plating. It was exploded by the YPG before it reached its target."
18. YPG flags and a trench beside a YPG position
19. Female YPG fighters run along trench
20. Close of YPG fighter looking through rifle sights, pan to others on guard
21. Machine gunner aiming his gun through a hole in the wall
22. Wide of YPG fighters
23. War plane flies overhead
24. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Pozul (last name not given), YPG fighter:
"The air strikes are effective, they are effective and they (IS militants) are afraid of the planes and our forces can remove them. When they hear the planes they get afraid like donkeys and can't find anywhere to hide when the Americans come."
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Kobani, Syria - 20 November 2014
25. YPG troops walk past a sheet put up to obscure potential enemy sniper's view, enter a building
26. Jamil Mazurka, a senior YPG commander in Kobani region sitting, a gun next to him
27. Close of a walkie-talkie on carpet
28. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Jamil Mazurka, senior commander of YPG in Kobani region:
"Over the last week we have entered a new phase. We can tell everyone, not just those on the front lines, that we are drawing up the necessary tactics and plans to liberate the city."
29. YPG unit commander Zardasht Kobani walking on street
30. Zardasht climbs stairs in a building
32. SOUNDBITE: (Kurdish) Zardasht Kobani, YPG unit commander:
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