Kobane
Proper noun
Meaning
Kobane
A city in Kurdistan of Syria.
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During the Battle of Kobane in Syria, the squadron's B-1s dropped 660 bombs over five months in support of Kurdish forces defending the city, one-third of all bombs used during OIR during the period, killing some 1,000 ISIL fighters.
Kurds in Kobane and Shehba retain an overwhelming loyalty to the AANES and SDF, and there is no appetite in either of these population centers for a return to Damascus’ control.
By the end of last week, about 170,000 Syrian Kurds had fled across the border from the Kobane area into Turkey.
It was one battle in particular that was to capture the world’s attention — the battle for Kobane, also known as Ayn al-Arab.
The PKK headquarters in the Kandil Mountains of Iraq thought the international political balances were ripe for an independent Kurdistan, or at least autonomy, by copying the Kobane “canton” experience to towns and cities in Turkey.
The US Central Command announced Friday that it conducted “one strike near Kobane,” destroying an IS checkpoint, a day after it reported that “three strikes near Kobane destroyed an ISIS armed vehicle, an IS artillery piece, and an ISIS tank.”