Siege of Kobanê
| Siege of Kobanî | |||||||||
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| Part of the Syrian Civil War, Syrian Kurdish–Islamist conflict, and the American-led intervention in Syria |
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 A map showing the progression of the Siege of Kobanî, from October 2014 to January 2015 |
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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 Masoud Barzani Barack Obama
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Abu Ayman al-Iraqi † (Head of Military Shura) Abu Suleiman al-Naser (Replacement Military Chief) Abu Ali al-Anbari (Deputy, Syria) Abu Omar al-Shishani(Field commander in Syria) Abu Ali al-Askari † (ISIL senior commander) Abu Mohammed al-Masri † (ISIL senior commander) Emrah Ismail (WIA) (ISIL senior commander) Abu Khattab Al Kurdi †(Commander) Sheikh Othman al-Nazeh † Sultan al-Safri al-Harbi †
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| Units involved | |||||||||
 9th Bomb Squadron
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| Strength | |||||||||
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1,500–2,000 YPG & YPJ (Kurdish claims as of 1 November 2014) |
9,000+ fighters (Kurdish claims) 30–50 MBTs 2 UAVs |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| YPG & YPJ: 562–741 killed (3 MLKP) FSA and Jabhat al-Akrad: 29–72 killed Peshmerga: 1 killed (accident) |
1,443–2,000 killed (per SOHR) 2,000+ killed (per U.S.) 1,068–5,000 killed, 18 tanks destroyed, and 2 drones shot down (per Kurds) |
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| 39–56 civilians killed Over 400,000 civilians fled to Turkey |
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* Additional hundreds of deaths by airstrikes ** 1,000+ by US-led Coalition airstrikes |
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Syrian Kurdistan
PKK Iraqi Kurdistan (from 30.10)
Free Syrian Army
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