As Bashar al-Assad’s military collapsed late last year, the SNA seized the opportunity to strike against the SDF, forcing it ...

Yet, within weeks of ISIS' expulsion, the war-torn community set about rebuilding. International NGOs provided some assistance, but the reconstruction of Kobani was largely a grassroots effort ...

The defeat of the jihadists in Kobani brought a breakthrough in the war against IS in 2015. There was a spirit of optimism among the Kurds at the time. However, this has long since evaporated in ...

Despite the unification of armed factions under Syria’s transitional government, deep-seated rivalries and territorial ...

Statements by the Syrian Democratic Forces, Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria and People's Defense Units on ...

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There is no better way to describe the impact that the March 2015 victory in Kobanî had on the war against the Islamic State. ISIS’s defeat in this north Syrian city will go down in history as ...

However, doing so with the SDF has proved challenging. The United States considers the group a key ally against ISIL (ISIS), ...

The siege of Kobani from September 2014 until January 2015 and its heroic defense by Kurdish forces in northern Syria was the turning point in the war against the Islamic State. Now, with the fall ...

Israel, which has launched hundreds of airstrikes over Syria since the country's uprising turned-civil war broke out in 2011 ... northern border town of Kobani, which is under the control of ...