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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 529

Kobani

Women walk on the streets of Kobani, Syria. (Ziv Genesove/Times of Israel)
October 28, 2019, 2:17 pm
On Syria’s border, a snapshot of Kurdish town’s 2018 calm ahead of current storm
In Kobani last year, The Times of Israel found a Kurdish people interested in Israeli life and hopeful for a peaceful future. That hope was to be dashed
By Ziv Genesove
US military vehicles drive on a road in the town of Tal Tamr on October 20, 2019, after pulling out of their base (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
October 21, 2019, 7:17 pm
Withdrawing US troops cross into Iraq from Syria
Convoy crosses Tigris River en route to Arbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdistan Region; NYT reports Trump leaning toward keeping contingent of about 200 troops in eastern Syria
By AFP
Syrian Kurd Nazdan, who fled her home in Qamishli, Syria, wears traditional clothes as she dances and waves a Kurdish flag, during a celebration of Nowruz day, in Beirut, Lebanon, March 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)
October 8, 2017, 3:18 pm
It’s not independence, but Syria’s Kurds entrench self-rule
As Kurdistan separatists spark major conflict across the border in Iraq, their Syrian brethren are making major advances toward their own less ambitious goal
By Sarah El Deeb
Kurdish fighters of the YPG flash victory signs as they sit on their pickup on their way to battle against the Islamic State, near Kezwan mountain, northeast Syria, May 20, 2015. (The Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units via AP/File)
June 7, 2016, 6:31 am
Advances on IS strongholds underline US, Russia convergence
Though on opposite sides of Syrian civil war, major powers see shared interest in battling jihadist group
By Zeina Karam and PHILIP ISSA
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at an official ceremony in the Presidential Complex in Ankara, on December 24, 2015. (AFP/Adem Altan)
February 8, 2016, 3:31 am
Erdogan: US must choose between Turkey, Kurdish forces
Comments follow US official’s visit to Kobani, where US-backed Kurds drove back Islamic State fighters in 2015
By AP
In this Dec. 9, 2015 file photo, President Barack Obama's envoy to the US-led coalition against the Islamic State, Brett McGurk, speaks to reporters during a news conference at the US Embassy in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq. (Thaier Al-Sudani /Pool File Photo via AP)
February 2, 2016, 1:32 am
US official visits war-torn northern Syrian town
Brett McGurk, White House coordinator against Islamic State, describes ‘incredible devastation’ in Kobani
By SUSANNAH GEORGE and Bradley Klapper
A paramilitary police officer carries the lifeless body of Aylan Kurdi, 3, after a number of migrants died and a smaller number were reported missing after boats carrying them to the Greek island of Kos capsized, near the Turkish resort of Bodrum early Wednesday, September 2, 2015. (AP/DHA)
September 5, 2015, 9:43 am
Turkey arrests 4 Syrians over deaths of migrants at sea
Suspects accused of causing 12 deaths, including that of toddler whose washed-up body sparked worldwide horror
By AFP
Abdullah Kurdi, center, whose wife and children drowned while trying to reach Kos from Turkey, holds the body of his child during a funeral ceremony in Kobani, on September 4, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)
September 5, 2015, 8:31 am
Aunt of drowned Syrian boys vows to bring family to Canada
Tima Kurdi says her brother plans to stay in Kobani where his family is buried, but ‘he cannot be by himself there’
By Rob Gillies
In this image made from video, Abdullah Kurdi, foreground, the Syrian man who survived a capsizing during a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece, speaks to reporters from a graveyard after burying his wife and two sons in their hometown of Kobani, the Syrian Kurdish region they fled, on Friday, Sept. 4, 2015. The haunting image of the man's 3-year-old son, Aylan Kurdi, washed up on Turkish beach focused the world's attention on the wave of migration fueled by war and deprivation. Aylan drowned along with his 5-year-old brother Galip and his mother, Rehan while trying to reach the island of Kos. (AP Photo via AP video)
September 4, 2015, 1:52 pm
Drowned Syrian boys buried as Europe wrangles over refugees
Under fire, British prime minister agrees to take in thousands of Syrian migrants; EU foreign ministers to meet on crisis
By AFP
Abdullah Kurdi, 40, father of Syrian boys Aylan, 3, and Galip, 5, who were washed up on a beach near the Turkish resort of Bodrum on September 2, 2015, cries as he waits for the delivery of their bodies outside a morgue in Mugla, Turkey, on September 3, 2015. (AP/Mehmet Can Meral)
September 4, 2015, 12:15 pm
Bereaved father returns to Syria to bury 2 sons and wife
After photo of his drowned son shocks world, Abdullah Kurdi arrives at Turkish border town of Suruc with funeral caskets of his family
By AFP
This handout photo courtesy of Tima Kurdi shows Aylan Kurdi, left, and his brother Galib Kurdi. The body of 3-year-old Syrian Aylan Kurdi was found on a Turkish beach after the small rubber boat he, his 5-year old brother Galib and their mother, Rehan, were in capsized during a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece. (Photo courtesy of Tima Kurdi /The Canadian Press via AP)
September 4, 2015, 2:13 am
Father of dead Syrian boys: ‘All I want is to be with my children’
After shocking photos of 3-year-old’s body washed ashore, Abdullah Kurdi says he will take his two sons, wife for burial in hometown of Kobani
By Suzan Fraser and Gregory Katz
A Turkish police officer carries a migrant child's dead body off the shores in Bodrum, southern Turkey, on September 2, 2015 after a boat carrying refugees sank. (AFP/DOGAN NEWS AGENCY)
September 3, 2015, 11:37 am
Drowned Syrian toddler was denied asylum in Canada
Escaping Islamic State, Kurdi family was trying to reach North America with the help of aunt in Vancouver
By Tamar Pileggi and AFP
The bodies of victims after a suicide bombing in the Turkish town of Suruc, not far from the Syrian border, July 20, 2015 (AFP/Ilyas Akengin)
July 20, 2015, 9:08 pm
Video emerges of suicide bombing on Turkish town
Attack kills 30 people, most of them university students; Islamic State said responsible
By ToI Staff and AFP
The scene after an explosion in the town of Suruc in Sanliurfa, on July 20, 2015, not far from the Syrian border (AFP/DICLE NEWS AGENCY)
July 20, 2015, 2:59 pm
Suicide attack kills at least 28 in Turkey border town
Officials say Islamic State likely perpetrators of bombing that also injured nearly 100 in Suruc, near Syria
By AFP, AP and ToI Staff
Gill Rosenberg, an Israeli-Canadian who fought with the Kurds in Syria and Iraq, after returning to Israel on July 12, 2015. (screen capture: Ynet)
July 12, 2015, 10:55 pm
Israeli-Canadian woman returns from fighting with Kurds in Syria
IDF vet Gill Rosenberg back in Israel after 6 months in Iraq, Syria battling Islamic State; released after questioning by authorities
By ToI Staff
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