kobaniNickolaos Mavromates
(Security Analyst-Historian)

Editing by: George Mavromates author of "Operation Medina The Jihad and Operation Medina: The Crusade

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) – Publication Date: 15 October 2014

As the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) jihadist forces are pressing from all sides to conquer capture the Syrian Kurdish controlled city of Kobanê, a large amount of the local Kurdish population that resides there have fled to the Turkish side of the border for protection. The present situation as a whole it could be better identified by a BBC map where it illustrates the ISIS onslaught and its gains against the Kurdish fighters since September 14, 2014 when the original phases of Kobanê's siege begun..... Read more
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