Kurdish fighters expelled Islamic State militants from Kobani, Syria, after three months of fighting in which nearly 400 Kurds and 1,000 militants were killed and more than 700 U.S.-led airstrikes were carried out.[1][2] At least four gunmen claiming allegiance to the Islamic State shot and killed nine people in a luxury hotel in Tripoli, Libya; Islamic State loyalists bombed multiple security sites in Sinai, Egypt, killing at least 30 people, and in Baghdad, Islamic State fighters dropped mortar shells on two neighborhoods, killing five civilians, and detonated a car bomb at a crowded market, killing at least 20 others.