'STOP ISIS Terror' Sign
A Kurdish protester sits behind a sign reading " STOP ISIS terror" in front of the United Nations headquarters in Vienna October 9, 2014. A group of Kurdish people living in Austria are on hunger strike since Monday in solidarity for Syrian Kurds who are fighting to defend the Syrian-Turkey border town of Kobane from Islamic State militants. Reuters/Leonhard Foeger

Signs of Kobani ISIS fighters in Syria growing desperate have been amply buttressed by the recent outpourings of a Chechen militant in the social media. From this northern Syrian city, he issued an emotional plea for support and prayer for him and his supporters.

This conforms the news that ISIS is facing reverses as the advancing forces of Kurdish fighters have started seizing vital buildings used by ISIS, besides capturing a large number of weapons and ammunition. This was reported by RFERL News, quoting the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Idris Nassan, a Kurdish official in Kobani, also claimed that Kurds had made "big progress in the east and southeast" of Kobani, and the ISIS control of the town has been reduced to less than 20 percent.

Euphoria Gone

The distress of ISIS in Kobani is now more apparent in the tone of social-media postings made by the group in recent days. In the past, the posts were euphoric about victory and had been gloating about how they were saving the Kurdish people from the clutches of communism and atheism. But a very recent social media post on Nov 18 by an ISIS militant known as Adam al-Almani painted a different picture. It is more of the tone of a besieged militant who is facing heavy fire and air strikes.

Rain Of Missiles

This message of the ISIS militant reads, "Brothers and sisters, for you this might be just a text, but for us they are fully experienced feelings. What you read on the screen is what we go through in real life ... you get tired after 10 minutes of praying ... but we do not rest, you are all comfortable in a soft bed. But we are staying anxious under a rain of missiles."

It continues further, "You will not understand the feeling when the sky is torn up from drones, and the earth is bursting from what is falling on it. You do not understand the feeling when you lie to sleep an hour before your next turn comes for guarding the front. Bombs are falling and fragments of the ceiling are waiting to drop on you and you do not know which of the walls will fall on you in the next few minutes, or even worse, the roof".

"When brothers are killed in front of you, yes, yes, we have seen all that in the movies, but few experienced it when you know there is no turning back and hell is behind you and ahead are your trials." Then Almani makes a fervent appeal to the readers to pray for him and his fellow ISIS militants.

Battered By Airstrikes

Meanwhile, a report in Huffington Post also affirmed that despite two months into the assault on Kobani, the Islamic State is still pouring in fighters to capture the Kurdish town. But it said the "ISIS drive looks blunted." There had been 270 airstrikes in Kobani by the U.S.-led coalition, which helped the unflinching Kurdish defenders in gaining an upper hand against the extremists, who only a few weeks ago appeared invincible. David L. Phillips, an expert on Kurdish issues, also said the setback in Kobani is "a statement of ISIS vulnerability."