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Feb 26, 2015 · Kobani lay in ruins, and ISIS was still launching attacks nearby, leaving the refugees unable to return home.
Jun 25, 2015 · Kobane has been a battleground between Islamic State (IS) militants and Kurdish fighters since September 2014, when IS fighters overran the small northern Syrian town, forcing almost all of its...
Subscribe to BBC News www.youtube.com/bbcnewsThe Kurdish border city of Kobane in Northern Syria has been under siege by Islamic State fighters for more than...
May 16, 2024 · ANKARA, May 16 (Reuters) - A Turkish court sentenced former pro-Kurdish party leader Selahattin Demirtas to more than 40 years in jail on Thursday for instigating protests in 2014 triggered by an...
Jan 27, 2021 · Kobani is a city in northern Syria along the Turkish border. Here, a member of NATO looked down at ISIS flags across the border and did nothing to stop it. In fact, Turkey would close its border...
Aug 16, 2022 · Turkish troops and U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters exchanged heavy shellfire on Tuesday in the northern Syrian border town of Kobane, leaving one civilian dead as the conflict escalated.
Siege of Kobanî. The siege of Kobanî was launched by the Islamic State (IS) on 13 September 2014, [74] in order to capture the Kobanî Canton and its main city of Kobanî (also known as Kobanê or Ayn al-Arab) in northern Syria, in the de facto autonomous region of Rojava. By 2 October 2014, IS succeeded in capturing 350 Kurdish ...
