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• Turkey wants Syrian forces out of border areas: aide

  Syrian Kurdish-led forces and Turkey exchanged blame on Saturday for fighting that has rattled a U.S.-brokered cease-fire in northeastern Syria, as the Kurds appealed to Vice-President Mike Pence to enforce the deal.

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  Oct 19, 2019
  
• Father of drowned boys returns bodies to Syrian hometown of Kobani

  The Syrian man who survived a capsizing during a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece has taken the bodies of his wife and two sons back to the Syrian Kurdish region they fled, to bury them in their hometown of Kobani.

  World

  Sep 4, 2015
  
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• Islamic State fighters admit defeat in Kobani, blame airstrikes

  Two Islamic State fighters said in a video released Friday that airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition forced them to withdraw from the Syrian town of Kobani.

  World

  Jan 31, 2015
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• WATCH: Kurdish fighters nearly push ISIS out of Kobani

  Kurdish fighters backed by intense US-led airstrikes pushed the Islamic State group almost entirely out of Kobani on Monday, marking a major loss for the extremists.

  World

  Jan 26, 2015
• Syrian border town Kobani turned ghost town after months of fighting

  An official and an activist group say Kurdish fighters have captured a strategic hill overlooking the Syrian town of Kobani after intense clashes with the Islamic State group.

  World

  Jan 19, 2015
• Coalition aircraft strike targets in Syria-Turkey border town Kobani

  The contested Syrian border town of Kobani came under heavy bombardment from coalition airstrikes on Friday.

  World

  Jan 16, 2015
• Islamic State group losing ground in symbolic Kobani battle

  With more than a thousand militants killed and territory slipping away, the Islamic State group is losing its grip on the Syrian border town of Kobani under intense U.S.-led airstrikes.

  World

  Jan 14, 2015
• WATCH: Young Kurdish female fighter reunites with dad on battlefield

  Pervin Kobani, the 19-year-old daughter of a farmer, is one Kurdish female fighter playing a major role in helping defend Syria from an ISIS onslaught.

  World

  Dec 2, 2014
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• Canadian Gill Rosenberg ‘safe’ after reports of ISIS kidnapping

  Reports that Gill Rosenberg, a Canadian-Israeli citizen, had been captured by Islamic State militants in Syria were put to rest Monday after a post on her Facebook page.

  Canada

  Dec 2, 2014
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• Who is Gill Rosenberg?

  Gill Rosenberg, a Canadian-born former member of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), has reportedly been captured by Islamic State militants in Syria.

  Canada

  Dec 1, 2014