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  1. Rojava revolutionaries show how to fight 'Islamic State'

    (HDP) Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) Kobane Rojava People's Defense Units (YPG) Women's ... condemnation. But the group's attack on Kobane in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) 鈥 and the fierce resistance ... about another terrorist attack that was occurring at the same time. Kobane attack On June 25, about 100 ...

  2. Rojava fights off new Islamic State attack

    Imperialism & war Democracy Housing Tony Iltis Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) Kobane Rojava ... People's Defense Units (YPG) Women's Protection Units (YPJ) The Kurdish town of Kobane in northern ... Autonomy-ruled cantons of Kobane and Cizire. It also cut off IS forces from the Turkish border. After the ...

  3. Turkey declares war on Syria's democratic hope

    Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) Kobane Rojava People's Defense Units (YPG) Women's Protection ... Rojava city of Kobane in 2014, the Kurdish-led Peoples Protection Units (YPG) and Women's Protection ... time, tenacious resistance to the ISIS siege of Kobane in September 2014, combined with worldwide ...

  4. Turkey: Government implicated in ISIS suicide attack

    Democratic Party (HDP) Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) Kobane Rojava Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) ...

  5. Kurds drive back IS amid West's shifting alliances

    terrorist group that calls itself 鈥渢he Islamic State鈥 (IS) 鈥 is being won in the Kurdish town of Kobane on ... the YPG/YPJ-controlled border town of Kobane (also known as Kobani). Until October, no US air-strikes ... tenacity of the YPG/YPJ鈥檚 resistance meant that Kobane has not fallen, defying expectations. Protests ...

  6. Islamic State gives West excuse for war

    town of Kobane, on the Turkish-Syrian border. On October 10, as IS fighters closed in on the centre of ... Kobane, United Nations envoy Staffan de Mistura predicted the town鈥檚 fall would lead to a massacre of ... coalition鈥檚 air strikes have not 鈥渟macked鈥 IS forces massing around Kobane. Local YPG/YPJ commanders reported ...

  7. US-led war in Middle East stumbles

    town of Kobane. The US was initially reluctant to come to Kobane鈥檚 aid. The PKK 鈥 allied to and ... strikes began targeting the IS forces around Kobane. The defenders, however, needed heavy weapons. ... Turkey allowed KRG Peshmerga forces with heavy weapons to reach Kobane. Since then YPG and YPJ forces, ...

  8. Kurds betrayed: How serious is the US about fighting ISIS?

    Kurdistan, just across the border from the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane. The victims were part of a group of ... Turkish and Kurdish left-wing youth travelling to Kobane to help rebuild the town since it survived a five ... US started bombing targets in Syria but refused to target the ISIS forces massing around Kobane. It ...

  9. Afrin invasion: Turkey attacks northern Syria鈥檚 democratic revolution 鈥 with Russian and US approval

    Kurdish-led forces liberated the northern Syrian city of Kobane from ISIS 鈥 after a months-long siege that ... which had supported ISIS鈥檚 siege of Kobane. With approval from both Russia and the United States, it has ... intervene. A US-led Western coalition began air strikes in Iraq and Syria. During the siege of Kobane, the ...

  10. Rojava fights off new IS attack

    & Liberation/Facebook. The Kurdish town of Kobane in northern Syria was attacked on June 25 by ... of Kobane and Cizire. It also cut off IS forces from the Turkish border. After the liberation of Gire ...

  11. Who is defeating the 鈥業slamic State鈥?

    suffered from its excesses.鈥 The now heralded liberation of Kobane in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) has been ... spokesperson Jen Psaki was quick to declare the victory a US one. Kobane is one of three cantons in Rojava that ... (YPJ), have had to fight off attacks from government and opposition forces. The IS siege of Kobane began ...

  12. Attacks on Kurds reveal Turkey's Western-backed terror hypocrisy

    invading their territory. In Syria in September 2014, ISIS concentrated its forces on besieging Kobane, the ... frequently referring to Kobane's imminent fall as a tragic inevitability. US air strikes initially did ... not target the ISIS forces amassing around Kobane, the largest concentration of forces in the ...

  13. Foreign intervention worsens Syria crisis

    Kobane in September last year. The West ignored the defenders' pleas, amplified by worldwide ... Due to remarkable sacrifice and fierce fighting over many months, Kobane did not fall. This resistance ...

  14. Syrian talks exclude Kurdish-led democratic opposition

    Kobane. The town lies on the Syrian-Turkish border 鈥 three sides of the town were besieged by ISIS, the ... fourth by the Turkish military. Contrary to the predictions of US Secretary of State John Kerry, Kobane ...

  15. Syria: Kurdish-led forces on the verge of taking Raqqa, but what comes next?

    March 2015 siege of the Rojava border town of Kobane was a turning point in many ways. It was the first ...

  16. 锘縉ow Turkey is bombing Kurdish-led revolutionaries in Syria 鈥 with Western complicity

    been against ISIS. Since the YPJ and YPG successfully resisted ISIS鈥檚 siege of Kobane in Rojava in ...

  17. Bloodshed and uncertainty grow amid chemical fog of war

    (YPG/J) 鈥 began during the ISIS siege of Kobane. The YPG/J entered into the arrangement reluctantly.聽At ...

  18. Abbott's Syria war will create more refugees

    This is because after the Turkish-backed bid by ISIS to invade Rojava faltered at Kobane just after the ...

  19. The 'Anzac Day terror plot' raises new threat of tyranny

    throughout the siege of Kobane last year gave material and logistical support to the IS forces. The Kurdistan ...

  20. The real reason Tony Abbott wants to bomb Syria

    building鈥 in South Sudan, Dicle News Agency reported on August 21. The proposed location, between Kobane and ...