"For five months, the fanatical soldier-terrorists of the Islamic State laid siege to the Kurdish-held city of Koban, in northern Syria, before finally being tu

A small Kurdish city located in northern Syria, Kobane, became symbolically significant when ISIS laid siege to the city between September 2014 and January 2015

The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a

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