militants have been trying to capture the Syrian town of Kobani for about a month. On Oct. 7, right after the U.S. started bombing ISIS targets around the primarily Kurdish border town ...

Clashes in Syria have increased at the Tishrin Dam, a strategic site on the Euphrates River around 30 miles south of the ...

U.S. troops came under artillery fire from the Turkish military that landed within "a few hundred meters" of their position in Kobani, Syria, a Pentagon spokeswoman said Friday. By Paul Szoldra ...

Just a few dozen kilometres away, the Syrian National Army (SNA) - a Turkish-backed patchwork militia – is clashing with Kobani's defenders ... turned ISIS' suicide bombing tactic against ...

The suspension of the USAID program in northern and eastern Syria has affected local institutions and organizations in the region. In Kobani, six local civil society organizations have suspended ...

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Portrait of Mahmoud, displaced for the fourth time, in a village near Kobani (Syria), January 10, 2025. WILLIAM KEO FOR LE MONDE Mahmoud's children in a village near Kobani, January 10 ...

Turkiye's intelligence agency conducted a cross-border operation inside Syria and seized a man suspected of perpetrating a 2013 bomb attack near the Syrian border that killed dozens of people ...

ANKARA, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Turkey's intelligence agency conducted a cross-border operation inside Syria and seized a man suspected of perpetrating a 2013 bomb attack near the Syrian border that ...