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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 ...

In Turkey, thousands of Kurds among the 200,000 who fled Kobani and the surrounding area, flocked to the border. Most went to celebrate, but some tried to cross the frontier, which remains ...

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 U.S. forces, however, have not withdrawn from Kobani, DeWalt said.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 ...

Turkey’s goal is to “establish de facto ... cease-fire talks between the Syrian Kurds and Turkish-backed rebels in Kobani collapsed on Monday without an agreement, according to a spokesman ...

Later, Turkey denied ownership of the drone but did ... on social media show U.S. troops and equipment moving towards Kobani, a town on the Turkish border that has witnessed intense clashes ...

before crushing a piece of skull underfoot. This surreal moment unfolded last week amid the ruins of Kobani, a city in the autonomous Kurdish region of Rojava, northeast Syria, where I travelled ...

TASS/. Syrian troops have entered the town of Kobani located 150 km from Aleppo in northern Syria on the border with Turkey, the Al Mayadeen TV Channel reported on Wednesday. The Syrian army is ...

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 ...