Your good news of the day: Kurdish YPG forces seize the Syrian border town of Tal Abyad, cutting ISIS off from their main access to Turkey.

A Kurd raises the YPG flag over the border crossing

Victorious Kurds celebrate their victory over the barbarians.

The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) advanced into Tal Abyad after taking a border post and cutting off the road south to the de facto IS capital of Raqqa, a monitoring group said.

"The Kurdish fighters are in almost full control of Tal Abyad," said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Abdel Rahman said there were still "some small pockets of resistance from small groups of Islamic State fighters who are still holed up inside".

At least 40 jihadists were killed as they fled Tal Abyad for Ein Issa, another town still under IS control."

Given their success at this critical point, I doubt ISIS can let this stand.  I expect that shortly they will make a sustained and aggressive attempt to recapture this location.  Meanwhile, the Kurds should, if their manpower and ammo is sufficient, immediately follow up by marching to the ISIS capitol of Raqqa, before the grunting animals of Daesh can regroup.  Perhaps they can relieve pressure on other areas of Syria and even Iraq by requiring ISIS to come to the defense of their capitol, which would in turn expose ISIS military assets to American airstrikes when they move.