Kobanî, Aleppo Governorate, Syria
🇸🇾 Kobanî (كوباني), officially Ayn al-Arab is a Kurdish-majority city in northern Syria, lying immediately south of the Syria–Turkey border. As a consequence of the Syrian civil war, the city came under the control of the Kurdish-majority People's Protection Units (YPG) militia in 2012 and became the administrative centre of the Kobani Canton, later transformed into Euphrates Region of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
From September 2014 to January 2015, the city was under siege by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Most of the eastern parts of the city were destroyed and most of the population fled to Turkey. In 2015, many returned and reconstruction began.
In mid October 2019, Kurdish forces accepted the entry of the Syrian Army and Russian Military Police in a bid to stop Turkey from invading the town.
Prior to the Syrian Civil War, the majority of the inhabitants were Kurds, with Arab, Turkmen, and Armenian minorities.
Aleppo, Syria
