"Since dawn this morning, not a single bullet has been fired in Tal Abyad," said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman.
"The Kurdish fighters now have full control of Tal Abyad," which was used by ISIS as a gateway from Turkey to its de facto capital Raqa to the south, he said.
Militiamen of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and their “Syrian rebel” allies were combing through the town to clear mines and booby-trapped cars left behind by ISIS terrorists.
"The town's fall is a heavy blow to ISIS, which had used the adjacent border crossing with Turkey to bring in fighters and ammunition, and smuggle out black market oil, analysts say."
"There are mines and car bombs everywhere, and bodies of ISIS fighters lying in the streets," said Sherfan Darwish, a spokesman for the (armed opposition group which is at war against Syrian Army) So-called “Burkan al-Furat” rebel group fighting alongside the YPG.
He said the anti-ISIS alliance was clearing the town before civilians could begin to return.
The town's fall is a heavy blow to ISIS, which had used the adjacent border crossing with Turkey to bring in fighters and ammunition, and smuggle out black market oil, analysts say.
The group will now have to rely on border crossings much further west in neighboring Aleppo province, adding hundreds of nearly 200 miles to their supply lines, Abdel Rahman said.
There, ISIS holds the Syrian side of the Jarablus crossing, which has been closed by Turkey, but other informal routes across the border remain open.
In past 10 days, Thousands of people have fled across border to escape fighting between the YPG and ISIS near Tel Abyad at Turkey's border.