The Syrian border city of Kobane is home to some 50-thousand people, and local Kurds are increasingly fearful that Turkey could try to seize their city. China has been stockpiling a key US crop ...

Syria's "Kurdish revolution," which started in Kobane, is no longer just a Kurdish one. After the defense of Kobane, the U.S. military helped Kurdish rebels create the SDF alongside Arab, Assyrian ...

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Just over a month ago, Syria's Bashar al-Assad was toppled by Islamist-led rebel forces. Among the many groups seeking greater representation is the Kurdish minority. In the border city of Kobane ...

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a woman and her child were killed in "artillery shelling by pro-Turkey factions" in the Kobane countryside, and the factions clashed with ...

Nassan estimated that IS are still present in around 10 percent of Kobane, the Kurdish town just a few kilometres from Syria’s border with Turkey. He warned, though, that the battle is still far ...

Supporters of the revolution in Rojava, Oğuz Yüzgeç and Sercan Üstündaş spent the last three years in a Damascus jail.

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The Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria (Rojava) on Thursday announced that its doors are open to the “voluntary return” of Syrians in the notorious al-Hol camp housing families of Islamic ...