ISIS now occupies one-third of Syria, or twice what it did when the campaign began, and around 400,000 people have fled Kobani alone. US military officials have conceded that Kobani isn’t ...

Dusty and remote, the Syrian city of Kobani has become an unlikely spoil in the war against Islamic State militants — and far more of a strategic prize than the United States wants to admit.

The battle for the Syrian border town of Kobani was a watershed in the war against the Islamic State group — Syrian Kurdish forces fought the militants in rubble-strewn streets for months as U.S ...

Thick smoke and debris rise Sunday from Kobani, Syria, as seen from Mursitpinar, Turkey, after an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition amid fighting between Syrian Kurds and Islamic State militants.

Syrian Kurdish fighters won the greatest victory in Kurdish history in January when they defeated Isis – “Islamic State” – in the battle for the city of Kobani on the Syrian-Turkish border.

At least 40 fighters on both sides were killed as Syrian Kurdish fighters and ISIS militants clashed in the northern Syrian city of Kobani, a monitoring group said Saturday.

Ten Iraqi peshmerga fighters entered the battered Syrian border town of Kobani on Thursday to combat the Islamic State's drive to control the key crossing along the Turkish border, the Syrian ...

Smoke billows following an airstrike by US-led coalition aircraft in Kobani, Syria, during fighting between Syrian Kurds and militants from Islamic State, on October 14, 2014 as seen from the ...

Syrian forces on Wednesday night rolled into the strategic border town of Kobani, blocking one path for the Turkish military to establish a “safe zone” free of Syrian Kurdish fighters along ...

Still, it was unprecedented for Turkey to promise to give Kurds passage to fight in Syria. That, combined with the U.S. airdrops, reflected the importance assigned to protecting Kobani from the ...

The events in Kobani cannot be disassociated from the entirety of the Syrian conflict. Trying to read a conflict that has claimed more than 200,000 lives only through the developments in Kobani is ...