SYRIA. Tel Hama. May 19, 2015. A Kurdish YPG fighter kicks the body of a dead Islamic State fighter killed during overnight coalition airstrikes on the front line near the village of Tel Hama, deep inside the Kurdish-controlled region of northern Syria that the Kurds refer as Rojava. YPG fighters arrived in the village of Tel Hama the morning after heavy coalition bombardment forced the retreat of Islamic State fighters who were in control of the village.