Kobani, also Kobane, officially Ayn al-Arab, is a Kurdish-majority city in the Ayn al-Arab District in northern Syria, lying immediately south of the Syria–Turkey...

siege of Kobanî was launched by the Islamic State (IS) on 13 September 2014, in order to capture the Kobanî Canton and its main city of Kobanî (also known...

The 2024 Kobani clashes were a military campaign conducted by the pro-Turkish Syrian National Army (SNA) and the Turkish Air Force against Syrian Democratic...

The Kobanî massacre was a combination of suicide missions and attacks on Kurdish civilians by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on the Kurdish-majority...

Democratic Forces (SDF). Ferhat Abdi Şahin was born to Syrian Kurdish parents in Kobani around 1967. Trained as a civil engineer at the University of Aleppo, according...

The Kobani trial (Turkish: Kobani Davası, Kurdish: Doza Kobanî) is a politically motivated trial against hundreds of pro-Kurdish politicians and human...

The 2014 Kobanî protests in Turkey were large-scale rallies by pro-People's Defense Units (YPG) protestors in Turkey which occurred in autumn 2014, as...

The Tishrin Dam offensive, or Southern Kobanî offensive, was a military operation in the northeastern Aleppo Governorate during the Syrian Civil War, conducted...

Kenneth Bie Kobani is a Nigerian politician of the People's Democratic Party. He is a former Rivers State Commissioner of Finance, and was previously a...

Euphrates Region, formerly Kobanî Canton, (Kurdish: Herêma Firatê; Arabic: إقليم الفرات; Classical Syriac: ܦܢܝܬܐ ܕܦܪܬ, romanized: Ponyotho d'Prat) is the...

group won a major victory over the Islamic State (IS) during the siege of Kobanî, where the YPG began to receive air and ground support from the United States...

activities did not cease, which eventually resulted in fighting in the Kobani countryside. In addition, the SNA refused the evacuation of SDF fighters...

the start of the siege of Kobanî, or Ayn al-Arab where the headquarters of the YPG is located. The area surrounding Kobani was then blocked on all sides...

remainder of the Kobanî Canton. On 13 September 2014, ISIL launched a massive offensive to take the Kobanî Canton and the city of Kobanî, with at least...

The Martyrs' Cemetery (Kurdish: Merzelî Şehîdan Kobanê) is in Kobanî, in the Rojava region of Syria. It was established in 2012 and is used for the members...

against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the Siege of Kobanî on October 5, 2014. She fought on Mishtanour Hill with Rojda Felat, who...

and the Levant (ISIL) and was involved in the defense of Kobanî during the Siege of Kobanî beginning in March 2014, with various Kurdish media agencies...

countries, that contributed in various ways to the effort. As the Siege of Kobanî continued there were growing calls to also arm the YPG, also known as the...

fatwas. In 2015, the sheikh died in the Battle of Kobani. "Prominent ISIS leader killed in Kobani". www.rudaw.net. Retrieved 2024-02-08. "Saudi IS cleric...

areas in Teshrin Dam near Kobani City. On 19 December, both Turkey and the SDF renewed their commitment to fighting for Kobani, rejecting any ceasefire...

Army which allowed the latter to enter the SDF-held cities of Manbij and Kobani in order to dissuade a Turkish attack on those cities as part of the cross-border...

statement on their planned trip to reconstruct the Syrian border town of Kobanî. Kobanî, which is approximately 10 km from Suruç, had been under siege by Islamic...

many as a hero of the Rojava–Islamist conflict. Abu Layla was born near Kobanî and is of mixed Kurdish and Arab parentage; he died in a hospital in Sulaymaniyah...

for the Kurdish-dominated areas in Afrin District, Ayn al-Arab District (Kobanî), and northern al-Hasakah Governorate was "Interim Transitional Administration"...

due to their support of the Kobani protests in 2014 which were held in support of the Kurdish population besieged in Kobani by the Islamic State of Iraq...

began to shell People's Protection Units (YPG) positions near the cities of Kobani and Tell Abyad as well as surrounding villages. Turkey views the YPG as...

council and a judiciary by the civic council of Kobanî. Following he held several positions in the Kobanî Canton until 2015. From 2015 and 2017, Mahmoud...

2019, the military councils formed during this decentralization are the Kobanî Military Council, the Tal Abyad Military Council, the Tabqa Military Council...

Free Syrian Army, who had helped defend the Kurdish town of Kobanî during the Siege of Kobanî. Liwa Thuwwar al-Raqqa had been expelled by the al-Nusra Front...

2014, however, she was in the Kobanî Canton and among the YPG/YPJ forces that ended up being besieged in the town of Kobanî by the Islamic State of Iraq...