'Look - here's a human spine. That's an ISIS spine.'

These absurd sentences reverberated in my brain as I turned to find my Kurdish guide holding out a collection of bones he'd unearthed from the rubble for Buy 2000 Cheap Proxies (https://dreamproxies.com) me to inspect... before crushing a piece of skull underfoot. 

This surreal moment unfolded last week amid the ruins of Kobani, a city in the autonomous Kurdish region of Rojava, northeast Syria, where I travelled to see firsthand the fallout of the fight against Islamic State.

Ten years ago, this shattered landscape was the stage for one of the most brutal and consequential urban battles in modern history as ISIS exploited the chaos of Syria's civil war to expand its caliphate like a lethal plague.