Contemporary era · 2014 – 2015

Siege of Kobanî

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 known as Kobanê or Ayn al-Arab) in northern Syria, in the de facto autonomous region of Rojava.

Siege of Kobanî
Siege of Kobanî · Voice of America News: Scott Bobb reports from the Suruç, Turkey/ Kobane, Syrian border; "Turkish Border Towns Hosting Thousands of Kobani Refugees"., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
13 Sept 2014 – 26 Jan 2015
Where
Aïn al-Arab
Era
Contemporary

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