ISIS besieges Kobani, Syria 2014 – Frederic Lafargue

Des habitants de la ville de Kobane, Syrie, assistent a quelque kilomtres la bataille qui fait rage dans la ville qu’ils ont fuit, depuis les collines en surplomb ct turc et malgr la prsence de l’arme turque qui les disperse rgulirement.
Bombardements ariens sur des positions tenues par Daesh, dans la partie orientale de Koban. 4/33
La police turque dploye devant la caserne o ont t cantonns les peshmergas kurdes venus d’Irak pauler les rsistants de Koban, se tiennent prts rprimer la population venue acclamer leurs frres du Kurdistan du Sud. 24/33
October 31, 2014, Kurdish peshmerga fighters wave Kurdish flags atop an army vehicle as they head towards the Syrian town of Kobani from the border town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 11.30.2014.On nov 29 in the early morning Daesh has conducted an attack on the Murtsipinar border crossing of Kobani, trying to create a north front and surround the city, using a suicide armored personnel carrier (BRDM) the drove from the turkish side. The YPG kurdish fighters resisted the assault loosing eight individuals but dislodging the attackers from the position they’ve tried to create inside a turkish wheat storage.On the site of the suicide BRDM attack.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 11.30.2014.On nov 29 in the early morning Daesh has conducted an attack on the Murtsipinar border crossing of Kobani, trying to create a north front and surround the city, using a suicide armored personnel carrier (BRDM) they drove from the turkish side. The YPG kurdish fighters resisted the assault loosing eight individuals but dislodging the attackers from the position they’ve tried to create inside a turkish wheat storage. At a position on the eastern front’s first line a YPG fighter uses an improvised periscope to monitor Daesh’s gunmen movements a few yards away.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan, 11.30.2014.On nov 29 in the early morning Daesh has conducted an attack on the Murtsipinar border crossing of Kobani, trying to create a north front and surround the city, using a suicide armored personnel carrier (BRDM) the drove from the turkish side. The YPG kurdish fighters resisted the assault loosing eight individuals but dislodging the attackers from the position they’ve tried to create inside a turkish wheat storage. A YPG fighter at a position on the eastern front’s first line. In the back ground the effigy of “Apo” Abdullah Ocalan leader of PKK.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan, 11.30.2014.On nov 29 in the early morning Daesh has conducted an attack on the Murtsipinar border crossing of Kobani, trying to create a north front and surround the city, using a suicide armored personnel carrier (BRDM) the drove from the turkish side. The YPG kurdish fighters resisted the assault loosing eight individuals but dislodging the attackers from the position they’ve tried to create inside a turkish wheat storage. A YPG fighter on the eastern front’s first line.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 11.30.2014.On nov 29 in the early morning Daesh has conducted an attack on the Murtsipinar border crossing of Kobani, trying to create a north front and surround the city, using a suicide armored personnel carrier (BRDM) the drove from the turkish side. The YPG kurdish fighters resisted the assault loosing eight individuals but dislodging the attackers from the position they’ve tried to create inside a turkish wheat storage. An unexploded Daesh’s 240 mm improvised mortar round plunged into the city center’s pavement.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.01.2014. Kurdish kobani kid in the western part of the city.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.01.2014. Kurdish kobani civilians in the western part of the city.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.02.2014. Wrecked cars disposed by the kurdish fighters to prevent Daesh’s car bomb attacks coming from the Mursitpinar border crossing to Turkey.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.02.2014. YPJ Commander Midia Raqqa (r) and a YPJ fighter on the eastern front’s first line
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.02.2014. YPJ Commander Midia Raqqa , on the eastern front’s first line
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.02.2014. YPJ Commander Midia Raqqa at a fighting position on the eastern front’s first line
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.02.2014. YPJ Commander Midia Raqqa ¨ and a YPJ fighter, at a fighting position on the eastern front’s first line croutch as incoming Daesh fire is heard.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.02.2014. North of the city, close to the eastern front.
December 4, 2014 – Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan, Syria: Jamil Mazloum, Kurdish general in charge of all the military operations YPG/YPJ in Kobani conducts Kurdish commanders meeting. The Kurdish fighters of Kobani, backed by a small number of Iraqi Peshmerga forces and Syrian rebels, are battling ISIS (ISIL or DAESH), the Islamic State group, which attacked the town in mid-September as part of an offensive after the Islamic State group invaded large parts of Syria and Iraq. Kobani, once population of about 50,000, has seen some of the fiercest urban warfare in Syria’s civil war, now in its fourth year. On the front lines of the battle for Kobani, Kurdish female fighters have been playing a major role in helping defend the town from the onslaught by the Islamic State extremist group. The Syrian Kurdish womenÕs self-defense force, known by its Kurdish acronym YPJ are now integrated with the menÕs units.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.03.2014. on the western front line, in the shelter of a YPG/YPJ position, a fighter gets ready for watch.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.03.2014. on the western front line, in the shelter of a YPG/YPJ position, a fighter takes order from commander before his watch.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.03.2014. on the western front line, at a outdoor YPJ position, a fighter at watch.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.03.2014. on the western front line, at a outdoor YPG position, fighters shooting a .50 cal gun at next Daesh position.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.04.2014, behind the western front line trenches, a YPG gunner aims a 81mm mortar tube at the next village where Daesh has a position.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.03.2014. on the western front line, between the YPG/YPJ defense lines, the entrance sign of the city.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.04.2014, behind the western front line trenches, Dalila a YPJ fighter rests between watches.

Des habitants de la ville de Kobane, Syrie, assistent a quelque kilomtres la bataille qui fait rage dans la ville qu’ils ont fuit, depuis les collines en surplomb ct turc et malgr la prsence de l’arme turque qui les disperse rgulirement.
Bombardements ariens sur des positions tenues par Daesh, dans la partie orientale de Koban. 4/33
La police turque dploye devant la caserne o ont t cantonns les peshmergas kurdes venus d’Irak pauler les rsistants de Koban, se tiennent prts rprimer la population venue acclamer leurs frres du Kurdistan du Sud. 24/33
October 31, 2014, Kurdish peshmerga fighters wave Kurdish flags atop an army vehicle as they head towards the Syrian town of Kobani from the border town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 11.30.2014.On nov 29 in the early morning Daesh has conducted an attack on the Murtsipinar border crossing of Kobani, trying to create a north front and surround the city, using a suicide armored personnel carrier (BRDM) the drove from the turkish side. The YPG kurdish fighters resisted the assault loosing eight individuals but dislodging the attackers from the position they’ve tried to create inside a turkish wheat storage.On the site of the suicide BRDM attack.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 11.30.2014.On nov 29 in the early morning Daesh has conducted an attack on the Murtsipinar border crossing of Kobani, trying to create a north front and surround the city, using a suicide armored personnel carrier (BRDM) they drove from the turkish side. The YPG kurdish fighters resisted the assault loosing eight individuals but dislodging the attackers from the position they’ve tried to create inside a turkish wheat storage. At a position on the eastern front’s first line a YPG fighter uses an improvised periscope to monitor Daesh’s gunmen movements a few yards away.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan, 11.30.2014.On nov 29 in the early morning Daesh has conducted an attack on the Murtsipinar border crossing of Kobani, trying to create a north front and surround the city, using a suicide armored personnel carrier (BRDM) the drove from the turkish side. The YPG kurdish fighters resisted the assault loosing eight individuals but dislodging the attackers from the position they’ve tried to create inside a turkish wheat storage. A YPG fighter at a position on the eastern front’s first line. In the back ground the effigy of “Apo” Abdullah Ocalan leader of PKK.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan, 11.30.2014.On nov 29 in the early morning Daesh has conducted an attack on the Murtsipinar border crossing of Kobani, trying to create a north front and surround the city, using a suicide armored personnel carrier (BRDM) the drove from the turkish side. The YPG kurdish fighters resisted the assault loosing eight individuals but dislodging the attackers from the position they’ve tried to create inside a turkish wheat storage. A YPG fighter on the eastern front’s first line.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 11.30.2014.On nov 29 in the early morning Daesh has conducted an attack on the Murtsipinar border crossing of Kobani, trying to create a north front and surround the city, using a suicide armored personnel carrier (BRDM) the drove from the turkish side. The YPG kurdish fighters resisted the assault loosing eight individuals but dislodging the attackers from the position they’ve tried to create inside a turkish wheat storage. An unexploded Daesh’s 240 mm improvised mortar round plunged into the city center’s pavement.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.01.2014. Kurdish kobani kid in the western part of the city.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.01.2014. Kurdish kobani civilians in the western part of the city.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.02.2014. Wrecked cars disposed by the kurdish fighters to prevent Daesh’s car bomb attacks coming from the Mursitpinar border crossing to Turkey.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.02.2014. YPJ Commander Midia Raqqa (r) and a YPJ fighter on the eastern front’s first line
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.02.2014. YPJ Commander Midia Raqqa , on the eastern front’s first line
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.02.2014. YPJ Commander Midia Raqqa at a fighting position on the eastern front’s first line
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.02.2014. YPJ Commander Midia Raqqa ¨ and a YPJ fighter, at a fighting position on the eastern front’s first line croutch as incoming Daesh fire is heard.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.02.2014. North of the city, close to the eastern front.
December 4, 2014 – Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan, Syria: Jamil Mazloum, Kurdish general in charge of all the military operations YPG/YPJ in Kobani conducts Kurdish commanders meeting. The Kurdish fighters of Kobani, backed by a small number of Iraqi Peshmerga forces and Syrian rebels, are battling ISIS (ISIL or DAESH), the Islamic State group, which attacked the town in mid-September as part of an offensive after the Islamic State group invaded large parts of Syria and Iraq. Kobani, once population of about 50,000, has seen some of the fiercest urban warfare in Syria’s civil war, now in its fourth year. On the front lines of the battle for Kobani, Kurdish female fighters have been playing a major role in helping defend the town from the onslaught by the Islamic State extremist group. The Syrian Kurdish womenÕs self-defense force, known by its Kurdish acronym YPJ are now integrated with the menÕs units.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.03.2014. on the western front line, in the shelter of a YPG/YPJ position, a fighter gets ready for watch.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.03.2014. on the western front line, in the shelter of a YPG/YPJ position, a fighter takes order from commander before his watch.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.03.2014. on the western front line, at a outdoor YPJ position, a fighter at watch.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.03.2014. on the western front line, at a outdoor YPG position, fighters shooting a .50 cal gun at next Daesh position.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.04.2014, behind the western front line trenches, a YPG gunner aims a 81mm mortar tube at the next village where Daesh has a position.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.03.2014. on the western front line, between the YPG/YPJ defense lines, the entrance sign of the city.
Kobani, Syrian Kurdistan 12.04.2014, behind the western front line trenches, Dalila a YPJ fighter rests between watches.

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