Kobani

Kobani still a ghost town, months after liberation from Islamic State

The battle for the Syrian border town of Kobani was a watershed in the war against the Islamic State group — Syrian Kurdish forces fought the militants in rubble-strewn streets for months as U.S. aircraft pounded the extremists from the skies until ultimately expelling them from the town earlier this year.

Victory for Kurdish forces as IS fighters admit defeat in Syria's Kobani

The Islamic State group has acknowledged for the first time that its fighters have been defeated in the Syrian town of Kobani and vowed to attack the town again.

Kurdish fighters control 90 percent of city in northern Syria

Kurdish fighters now control around 90 percent of the predominantly Kurdish city of Kobani in northern Syria, a monitoring group reported Monday.

Islamic State beat Kurdish children with cables and tortured them: Rights group

Islamic State militants abducted a group of children on 29 May as they returned to the Syrian town of Kobani. It freed the final 25 hostages on 29 October.

US airdrops arms to Kurds in Syria's Kobani to help fight against ISIS

The US military said on Sunday it had airdropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish forces defending the Syrian city of Kobani against Islamic State militants.

Kurds hold off ISIS militants in Syria's border town Kobani

Kurdish defenders held off Islamic State militants in Syria's border town of Kobani on Sunday, but the fighters struck with deadly bombings in Iraq, killing dozens of Kurds in the north.