The 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...
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Kobanî (كوباني, pronounced [koˈbaːniː], also rendered Kobanê [koˈbaːne], Arabic: كُوبَانِي, romanized: Kūbānī), officially Ayn al-Arab (Arabic: عَيْن...
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Rojda Felat (category People of the Syrian civil war)
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 and the Levant...
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People's Defense Units (redirect from Lions of Rojava)
and the FSA in Kobanî Canton in March and fighting its way to the gates of the city of Kobanî in September. The actual siege of Kobanî approximately coincided...
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Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey) (redirect from Democratic Party of the People)
protesting the lack of government intervention against the advance of ISIL militants on the city of Kobanî in Syria, just south of the Turkish border....
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Women's Protection Units (category Military wings of socialist parties)
including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and was involved in the defense of Kobanî during the Siege of Kobanî beginning in March 2014, with...
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in which several of the attackers were killed. In September 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launched the Siege of Kobanî and entered the...
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Suruç bombing (category History of Şanlıurfa Province)
of Kobanî. Kobanî, which is approximately 10 km from Suruç, had been under siege by Islamic State forces until January 2015. More than 300 members of...
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from most of Kobanî on 26 January 2015, thus lifting the siege. On 27 January 2015, YPG-led fighters had retaken the entire city of Kobanî. Since then...
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Arin Mirkan (category Year of birth missing)
(YPJ) who died fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the Siege of Kobanî on October 5, 2014. She fought on Mishtanour Hill...
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Kobanê (film) (category Kobanî)
Kobanê is a 2022 Kurdish war film about the Siege of Kobanî fought from October 2014 to January 2015 between the Kurdish People's Defense Units (YPG)...
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deteriorated during the Siege of Kobanî, when it was accused of facilitating the advance of the Islamic State, leading to the 2014 Kobanî protests. The Kurdish-Turkish...
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Mazloum Abdi (redirect from Mazlum Kobanî)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), after which an alliance with the US was agreed to. Abdi defended Kobanî during the Siege of Kobanî (Oct. 2014-Jan...
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the Kobanî protests. In January 2021, the president of the MHP Devlet Bahçeli, called for the closure of the HDP due to its involvement in the Kobanî protests...
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Adnan Abu Amjad (category Members of the Free Syrian Army)
including the Siege of Kobanî, the Tell Abyad offensive, the Tishrin Dam offensive, the al-Hawl offensive, the al-Shaddadi offensive, the Battle of Manbij,...
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of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the Siege of Kobanî, and in the YPG's Tell Abyad offensive of summer of 2015, the regions of Jazira and Kobanî were...
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Abu Layla (category People from Kobanî)
(SDF). He is regarded by 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...
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of Homs, Siege of Kobanî, Siege of Deir ez-Zor (2014–2017), Siege of Nubl and al-Zahraa, and Siege of al-Fu'ah and Kafriya. Multiple sieges took place...
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Kurdistan Workers' Party (redirect from People's Congress of Kurdistan)
Yazidis escape an encircled Mount Sinjar. In September 2014, during the Siege of Kobanî, some PKK fighters engaged with Islamic State forces in Syria who were...
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Euphrates Region (redirect from Canton of Kobanî)
Library in Kobani. Federalization of Syria Rojava conflict Rojava Afrin Region Jazira Region Siege of Kobanî Abboud 2018, Table 4.1 Cantons of the Rojava...
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against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant American-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021) Siege of Kobanî Military of ISIL Foreign involvement in...
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Iraqi Civil War Siege of Kobanî (2014–2015) – Syrian Civil War Siege of Al-Fu'ah and Kafriya (2015–2018) – Syrian Civil War Siege of Taiz (2015-present)–...
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Syrian Democratic Forces (redirect from Democratic Forces of Syria)
mainstream Syrian rebel factions of the Free Syrian Army, who had helped defend the Kurdish town of Kobanî during the Siege of Kobanî. Liwa Thuwwar al-Raqqa had...
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Kurds in Turkey (redirect from Kurds of Turkey)
2014, riots erupted in various cities in Turkey for protesting the Siege of Kobani. Protesters were met with tear gas and water cannons; 37 people were...
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Narin Afrin (category People from Kobanî)
notably during the 2014–2015 Siege of Kobanî. Narin Afrin was a resistance leader during the 2014–2015 Siege of Kobanî, representing the Kurdish People's...
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Peshmerga Roj (category Military wings of nationalist parties)
the Peshmerga Roj have not been able to enter Rojava. During the Siege of Kobanî, the KNC offered to send 200 Peshmerga Roj fighters to support the...
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Rojava–Kurdistan Region relations (redirect from Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria–Kurdistan Region relations)
Turkey. During the Siege of Kobanî, a large number of ethnic Kurdish citizens of Turkey crossed the border and volunteered in the defence of the town. Upon...
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Rojava–Islamist conflict (category Military operations of the Syrian civil war involving the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant)
of Zor Maghar, Al-Zyara, and Bayadiyah, near the city of Kobanî, after three days of fighting with YPG forces. On 9 July, IS advanced towards Kobanî from...
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Kurdistan Freedom Party (redirect from Revolutionaries' Union of Kurdistan)
played a crucial role. Some members of the Kurdistan Freedom Party also travelled to Syria and helped to defend Kobanî against ISIL.[better source needed]...
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Shannon M. Kent (category Recipients of the Meritorious Service Medal (United States))
part of a group that attended a meeting with local military officials and stopped at a local restaurant frequented by U.S. personnel, the Palace of the...
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