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

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Turkey says HTS supports its goal of dismantling Kurdish forces. HTS hasn’t publicly commented on that. In 2014, Kurdish groups repelled a weeks-long offensive by Islamic State in Kobani ...

Unlike in Afrin, where hundreds of thousands of residents were displaced and thousands killed in a ruthless landgrab by Turkey and the SNA, Kobani's residents were granted a tense but relatively ...

Shelling continued after the strikes hit the center of Kobani. Several mortars fell inside Turkey near the border gate, called Mursitpinar, according to witnesses. Islamic State militants have ...

However, this has long since evaporated in the face of Turkey's aggressive moves. Summer 2015 was a good summer for Mazlum Sidu in Kobani. The Kurds, with U.S. support, had defeated IS in the ...

Turkey is seeking to rapidly take advantage ... Ankara also threatened Kobani, a city that had helped defeat ISIS in 2015 by resisting the ISIS advance. Kurds played a key role in holding Kobani.

Newsweek’s Jim LaPorta first reported on Turkey shelling positions in northern ... U.S. forces, however, have not withdrawn from Kobani, DeWalt said. “The United States remains opposed to ...

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) 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 ...