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  1. World Kobane day celebrated in Sydney

    International solidarity Kerry Smith Kobane Rojava Gadigal Country/Sydney Kurdish solidarity ... activists rallied in Sydney on November 4, World Kobane Day. The day celebrates the heroic resistance of the ... Kurdish people in repelling an ISIS siege of Kobane three years ago. Kobane has now been rebuilt despite ...

  2. World Kobane Day celebrated in Australia

    Imperialism & war Kerry Smith Rojava Kobane liberated Kurdish region of Northern Syria Tens of ... took place across dozens of countries to show support for Kobane and its people at a time when major ... hold their territory against successive ISIS offensives, including several attacks on Kobane. But, ...

  3. Revolutionaries liberate Kobane, defeat IS

    State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) Kobane Rojava People's Defense Units (YPG) Women's Protection Units ... of Kobane on January 26 from attackers belonging to the terrorist group that calls itself the Islamic ... State (IS). Kobane remains intact 鈥 although, only just. Moreover, there are various forces that have ...

  4. Rojava Revolution celebrated in Sydney

    Kerry Smith Kobane Rojava Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Blacktown Kurdish community members ... had lost their lives in the battle to break ISIS鈥檚 siege of Kobane in 2014-15 and repel Turkey鈥檚 ...

  5. Turkey: Crackdown on HDP escalates with 82 new arrests

    the grounds of their 'role' in the Kobane protests in Turkey on 6鈥8 October 2014". ... According to the HDP, "the office of the prosecutor refers to the Kobane protests as the reason for ... Kobane in northern Syria by the ISIS and the inaction of Turkish government in the face of an imminent ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Syria: Why Rojava is different

    The world has started looking at Kobane and the other two liberated cantons of what the Kurds call ... Rojava (Western, or Syrian, Kurdistan) since the resistance in Kobane liberated the town from the brutal ... sets Kobane apart from other fighting militias is that their fight is more ideological than it ever ...