Kobani feels haunted by those who are still alive in it, trapped in limbo. It is a place so inhumane that the noise of coalition warplanes above is of strange comfort to those there. The ...

WASHINGTON — It is "highly possible" that the besieged Syrian city of Kobani could fall to Islamic State militants, the commander of U.S. military forces in the Middle East said Friday. Army Gen ...

Fighting between ISIS and Syrian Kurdish fighters for control of key Syrian city of Kobani has killed 800 people, monitoring group says.

WASHINGTON — The battle for Kobani is becoming an important propaganda coup for extremists who hope to show they can stand up to American military power, analysts say. "Everyone is talking about ...

Last January, when Kurdish forces ended the Islamic State’s five-month siege of Kobani, a contested town in Rojava, a semi-autonomous region on the Syrian and Turkish border, the local ...

Kobani, Syria has known nothing but gunfire and destruction in recent months: besieged by Islamic State militants since mid-September; the focus of US-led airstrikes in recent weeks.

Before ISIS militants surrounded the Syrian city, it had flourished as a place of tolerance and free speech. Now, that rich legacy has been wiped out.

In a stunning show of bravery, the Kurdish men and women holding Kobani are still holding out—and an ISIS poster boy has reportedly been killed.