Kobani freed from ISIS, 2015 – Frederic Lafargue

Feb 4th 2015, Kania Kurda neighborhood, on a pick up truck flying a PKK founder Abdullah Oçalan flag, kurdish fighters are crossing the last month’s fierce combat zone in rubble, heading to the villages south east of Kobani, where they keep chasing the retreating jihadists.
Feb 4th 2015, south east district, on the avenue heading to the villages south east of Kobani, where kurdish fighters keep chasing the retreating jihadists.
Feb 4th 2015, south east district, the last check point on the avenue heading to the villages south east of Kobani, where kurdish fighters keep chasing the retreating jihadists.
Feb 4th 2015, south east district, at the last check point held by the cities civil defense on the avenue heading to the villages south east of Kobani, where kurdish fighters keep chasing the retreating jihadists, a YPG pick up custom mounted with an anti aircraft 14.5 mm gun.
Feb 4th 2015, south east district, close at the last check point on the avenue heading to the villages south east of Kobani, the corpse of one of an ISIS gunman killed during the last weeks coalition’s airstrikes lays in a olive tree field.
Feb 4th 2015, close to the Halenj village, on the road heading to the ongoing fighting of YPG chasing the retreating ISIS forces, a Daesh’s BMP armored vehicle destroyed by last week’s coalition airstrikes.
Feb 4th 2015, close to the Halenj village, on the road heading to the ongoing fighting of YPG chasing the retreating ISIS forces, a Daesh’s BMP armored vehicle destroyed by last week’s coalition airstrikes.
Feb 4th 2015, Halenj village, on the road heading to the ongoing fighting of YPG chasing the retreating ISIS forces, a kurdish fighter on a YPG pick up custom mounted with a “Dooshka” 12.5 mm gun returns from the combat zone.
Feb 4th 2015, Halenj village, on the road heading to the ongoing fighting, copies of the Quran in french and in turkish found on the bodies of ISIS fighters killed last week while retreating from Kobani.
Feb 4th 2015, Halenj village, south east of Kobani, on the road heading to the ongoing fighting, YPG fighters are watching the corpses of ISIS gunmen killed last week while retreating from Kobani. The islamists have been shot by snippers while they where running away facing the counter offensive of YPG, their shoes and equipment have been seized and copies of the quran in french and turkish have been found on two of the eight aligned corpses.
Feb 4th 2015, Halenj village, south east of Kobani, on the road heading to the ongoing fighting, the cemetery damaged during the battle.
Feb 4th 2015, Halenj village, south east of Kobani, on the road heading to the ongoing fighting, a YPG fighter is watching the corpses of ISIS gunmen killed last week while retreating from Kobani. The islamists have been shot by snippers while they where running away facing the counter offensive of YPG, their shoes and equipment have been seized and copies of the quran in french and turkish have been found on two of the eight aligned corpses.
Feb 4th 2015, Halenj village, on the road heading to the ongoing fighting of YPG chasing the retreating ISIS forces, kurdish fighters on a YPG pick up custom mounted with a14.5 mm anti aircraft gun are heading to the combat zone.
Feb 4th 2015, North west section of Kobani, kids are playing close to the cementery newly created to burry the kurdish fighters killed during the fierce last month’s battle.
Feb 4th 2015, North west section of Kobani, kids are playing close to the cementery newly created to burry the kurdish fighters killed during the fierce last month’s battle.
Feb 4th 2015, North west section of Kobani, the western gate.
Feb 4th 2015, North west section of Kobani, the western gate.
Feb 4th 2015, Kania Kurda district, a panoramic view shot from the epicenter of suicide 20 tons truck blast.
Feb 4th 2015, Kania Kurda district, a panoramic view shot from the epicenter of suicide 20 tons truck blast.
Feb 4th 2015, Kania Kurda district, a panoramic view of the distructions shot from the center of Municipality Square.
In the Kania kurda neighborhood, a YPG fighter is searching a ISIS’s shelter, checking it’s empty of islamists and looking for equipment that can be used to pursue the couter offensive outside Kobani.
In the Kania kurda neighborhood, while he is searching a ISIS’s shelter, a YPG fighter looks at corpses of ISIS gunmen killed during the last day’s kurdish operation to cleanup kobani from Daesh presence. One of the corpses still carries an undetonated suicide belt.
In the Kania kurda neighborhood, while he is searching a ISIS’s shelter, a YPG fighter passes by corpses of ISIS gunmen killed during the last day’s kurdish operation to cleanup kobani from Daesh presence. One of the corpses still carries an undetonated suicide belt.
In the Kania kurda neighborhood, at the entrance of a ISIS shelter, corpses of ISIS gunmen killed during the last day’s kurdish operation to cleanup kobani from Daesh presence. One of the corpses still carries an undetonated suicide belt.
In the Kania kurda neighborhood, while he is searching a ISIS’s shelter, a YPG fighter looks at corpses of ISIS gunmen killed during the last day’s kurdish operation to cleanup kobani from Daesh presence. The kurdish fighter shows the undetonated suicide belt that one of the corpses still carries.
In the Kania kurda neighborhood, while he is searching a ISIS’s shelter, a YPG fighter looks at corpses of ISIS gunmen killed during the last day’s kurdish operation to cleanup kobani from Daesh presence. The kurdish fighter shows the undetonated suicide belt that one of the corpses still carries.
In the Kania kurda neighborhood, a YPG fighter is searching a ISIS’s shelter, checking it’s empty of islamists and looking for equipment that can be used to pursue the couter offensive outside Kobani.
In Kania kurds neighborhood, the inside of a ISIS’s shelter.
A Y.P.G Fighter in Kanya Kurda, having seized a doner kebab/meat knife from a body of an Islamic State fighter.
In the Kania kurda neighborhood, a YPG fighter is searching a ISIS’s shelter, checking it’s empty of islamists and looking for equipment that can be used to pursue the couter offensive outside Kobani.
YPG fighters collect electrical equipment (a truck battery and an inverter) while searching the ISIS shelters in Kania Kurda neighborhood.
Y.P.J fighters, at a street corner of Kobani’s city center.
Y.P.G fighters, on their way to secure the eastern part of Kobani’s city center.
Evindar Berkel, 24,(left) Kobani-born female fighter of the women’s units, the YPJ, says she will continue to fight with the YPJ in other parts of Syrian Kurdish enclaves, after Kobani is secured.
In the Kania kurda neighborhood, YPG fighters just found military fatigues abandoned by Daesh fighter’s.
YPG commander of a team of 40, Egit Botan (black cap) 37, joined the YPG from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which contributed significantly to the Syrian Kurdish forces, organising the fighters, providing training and manpower.
YPG fighters are reparing the customized into a armor personnel carrier Oshkosh MTVR truck that YPG commander of a team of 40, Egit Botan commands.
YPG commander of a team of 40, Egit Botan, 37, joined the YPG from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which contributed significantly to the Syrian Kurdish forces, organizing the fighters, providing training and manpower.

Feb 4th 2015, Kania Kurda neighborhood, on a pick up truck flying a PKK founder Abdullah Oçalan flag, kurdish fighters are crossing the last month’s fierce combat zone in rubble, heading to the villages south east of Kobani, where they keep chasing the retreating jihadists.
Feb 4th 2015, south east district, on the avenue heading to the villages south east of Kobani, where kurdish fighters keep chasing the retreating jihadists.
Feb 4th 2015, south east district, the last check point on the avenue heading to the villages south east of Kobani, where kurdish fighters keep chasing the retreating jihadists.
Feb 4th 2015, south east district, at the last check point held by the cities civil defense on the avenue heading to the villages south east of Kobani, where kurdish fighters keep chasing the retreating jihadists, a YPG pick up custom mounted with an anti aircraft 14.5 mm gun.
Feb 4th 2015, south east district, close at the last check point on the avenue heading to the villages south east of Kobani, the corpse of one of an ISIS gunman killed during the last weeks coalition’s airstrikes lays in a olive tree field.
Feb 4th 2015, close to the Halenj village, on the road heading to the ongoing fighting of YPG chasing the retreating ISIS forces, a Daesh’s BMP armored vehicle destroyed by last week’s coalition airstrikes.
Feb 4th 2015, close to the Halenj village, on the road heading to the ongoing fighting of YPG chasing the retreating ISIS forces, a Daesh’s BMP armored vehicle destroyed by last week’s coalition airstrikes.
Feb 4th 2015, Halenj village, on the road heading to the ongoing fighting of YPG chasing the retreating ISIS forces, a kurdish fighter on a YPG pick up custom mounted with a “Dooshka” 12.5 mm gun returns from the combat zone.
Feb 4th 2015, Halenj village, on the road heading to the ongoing fighting, copies of the Quran in french and in turkish found on the bodies of ISIS fighters killed last week while retreating from Kobani.
Feb 4th 2015, Halenj village, south east of Kobani, on the road heading to the ongoing fighting, YPG fighters are watching the corpses of ISIS gunmen killed last week while retreating from Kobani. The islamists have been shot by snippers while they where running away facing the counter offensive of YPG, their shoes and equipment have been seized and copies of the quran in french and turkish have been found on two of the eight aligned corpses.
Feb 4th 2015, Halenj village, south east of Kobani, on the road heading to the ongoing fighting, the cemetery damaged during the battle.
Feb 4th 2015, Halenj village, south east of Kobani, on the road heading to the ongoing fighting, a YPG fighter is watching the corpses of ISIS gunmen killed last week while retreating from Kobani. The islamists have been shot by snippers while they where running away facing the counter offensive of YPG, their shoes and equipment have been seized and copies of the quran in french and turkish have been found on two of the eight aligned corpses.
Feb 4th 2015, Halenj village, on the road heading to the ongoing fighting of YPG chasing the retreating ISIS forces, kurdish fighters on a YPG pick up custom mounted with a14.5 mm anti aircraft gun are heading to the combat zone.
Feb 4th 2015, North west section of Kobani, kids are playing close to the cementery newly created to burry the kurdish fighters killed during the fierce last month’s battle.
Feb 4th 2015, North west section of Kobani, kids are playing close to the cementery newly created to burry the kurdish fighters killed during the fierce last month’s battle.
Feb 4th 2015, North west section of Kobani, the western gate.
Feb 4th 2015, North west section of Kobani, the western gate.
Feb 4th 2015, Kania Kurda district, a panoramic view shot from the epicenter of suicide 20 tons truck blast.
Feb 4th 2015, Kania Kurda district, a panoramic view shot from the epicenter of suicide 20 tons truck blast.
Feb 4th 2015, Kania Kurda district, a panoramic view of the distructions shot from the center of Municipality Square.
In the Kania kurda neighborhood, a YPG fighter is searching a ISIS’s shelter, checking it’s empty of islamists and looking for equipment that can be used to pursue the couter offensive outside Kobani.
In the Kania kurda neighborhood, while he is searching a ISIS’s shelter, a YPG fighter looks at corpses of ISIS gunmen killed during the last day’s kurdish operation to cleanup kobani from Daesh presence. One of the corpses still carries an undetonated suicide belt.
In the Kania kurda neighborhood, while he is searching a ISIS’s shelter, a YPG fighter passes by corpses of ISIS gunmen killed during the last day’s kurdish operation to cleanup kobani from Daesh presence. One of the corpses still carries an undetonated suicide belt.
In the Kania kurda neighborhood, at the entrance of a ISIS shelter, corpses of ISIS gunmen killed during the last day’s kurdish operation to cleanup kobani from Daesh presence. One of the corpses still carries an undetonated suicide belt.
In the Kania kurda neighborhood, while he is searching a ISIS’s shelter, a YPG fighter looks at corpses of ISIS gunmen killed during the last day’s kurdish operation to cleanup kobani from Daesh presence. The kurdish fighter shows the undetonated suicide belt that one of the corpses still carries.
In the Kania kurda neighborhood, while he is searching a ISIS’s shelter, a YPG fighter looks at corpses of ISIS gunmen killed during the last day’s kurdish operation to cleanup kobani from Daesh presence. The kurdish fighter shows the undetonated suicide belt that one of the corpses still carries.
In the Kania kurda neighborhood, a YPG fighter is searching a ISIS’s shelter, checking it’s empty of islamists and looking for equipment that can be used to pursue the couter offensive outside Kobani.
In Kania kurds neighborhood, the inside of a ISIS’s shelter.
A Y.P.G Fighter in Kanya Kurda, having seized a doner kebab/meat knife from a body of an Islamic State fighter.
In the Kania kurda neighborhood, a YPG fighter is searching a ISIS’s shelter, checking it’s empty of islamists and looking for equipment that can be used to pursue the couter offensive outside Kobani.
YPG fighters collect electrical equipment (a truck battery and an inverter) while searching the ISIS shelters in Kania Kurda neighborhood.
Y.P.J fighters, at a street corner of Kobani’s city center.
Y.P.G fighters, on their way to secure the eastern part of Kobani’s city center.
Evindar Berkel, 24,(left) Kobani-born female fighter of the women’s units, the YPJ, says she will continue to fight with the YPJ in other parts of Syrian Kurdish enclaves, after Kobani is secured.
In the Kania kurda neighborhood, YPG fighters just found military fatigues abandoned by Daesh fighter’s.
YPG commander of a team of 40, Egit Botan (black cap) 37, joined the YPG from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which contributed significantly to the Syrian Kurdish forces, organising the fighters, providing training and manpower.
YPG fighters are reparing the customized into a armor personnel carrier Oshkosh MTVR truck that YPG commander of a team of 40, Egit Botan commands.
YPG commander of a team of 40, Egit Botan, 37, joined the YPG from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which contributed significantly to the Syrian Kurdish forces, organizing the fighters, providing training and manpower.

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