On 15 September 2014, ISIL launched a massive offensive to take the Kobanî Canton and the city of Kobanî, pushing into the villages at the western and eastern borders of the Canton. ISIL advance Ĭontrolled by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant On 2 July 2014, the city and the surrounding villages came under attack from ISIL. In March 2014, ISIL captured Sarrin and several other towns and villages from the YPG and the EILF. However, infighting between the groups erupted in January 2014 and some of them began to align with the YPG under the name of the Euphrates Islamic Liberation Front. ![]() In August 2013, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the al-Nusra Front, Ahrar al-Sham, the Suqour al-Sham Brigade, and the al-Tawhid Brigade announced that they would besiege Kobanî. Since then, the city has been under Kurdish control, while the YPG and Kurdish politicians exercise autonomy for what they call Rojava. Background ĭuring the Syrian Civil War, the People's Protection Units (YPG) took over Kobanî (Arabic: Ayn al-Arab) on 19 July 2012. The battle for Kobanî was considered a turning point in the war against Islamic State. In late June 2015, ISIL launched a new offensive against the city, killing at least 233 civilians, but were quickly driven back. By late April 2015, ISIL had lost almost all of the villages it had captured in the Canton, but maintained control of a few dozen villages it seized in the northwestern part of the Raqqa Governorate. The YPG and its allies then made rapid advances in rural Kobanî, with ISIL withdrawing 25 km from the city of Kobanî by 2 February. The city of Kobanê was fully recaptured on 27 January however, most of the remaining villages in the Kobanî Canton remained under ISIL control. On 26 January 2015, the YPG and its allies, backed by the continued US-led airstrikes, began to retake the city, driving ISIL into a steady retreat. The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and some Free Syrian Army (FSA) factions (under the Euphrates Volcano joint operations room), Peshmerga of the Kurdistan Regional Government, and American and US-allied Arab militaries' airstrikes began to recapture Kobane. ![]() By January 2015, this had risen to 400,000. The siege of Kobanî was launched by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant 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.īy 2 October 2014, the Islamic State succeeded in capturing 350 Kurdish villages and towns in the vicinity of Kobanê, generating a wave of some 300,000 Kurdish refugees, who fled across the border into Turkey's Şanlıurfa Province. ** 1,000+ by US-led Coalition airstrikes * Additional hundreds of deaths by airstrikes People's Liberation Faction ( until January 2015) ġ,500–2,000 YPG & YPJ (Kurdish claims as of 1 November 2014) ġ,422 –2,000 killed (per SOHR) Kurdistan Region (from 30 October) Ībdul Qader Sheikh Muhammad ("Abdo Dushka") Ību Ayman al-Iraqi † (Head of Military Shura) Ībdul Nasser Qardash (Deputy emir of the Delegated Committee) Ību Ali al-Askari † (ISIL senior commander) Ību Mohammed al-Masri † (ISIL senior commander)
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