In Kobane, Water and Nature at the Heart of the War in Syria

Ten years after the fighting against the Islamic State, the Kurdish city of Kobane is struggling to rebuild. Agriculture is struggling, and some of the water remains trapped by the conflict. Kobane and Boraz (Syria), report A song rises from the vast blue of the Euphrates, bordered by arid mountains. On his fishing boat, Armanj, a 17-year-old Kurdish high school student, sings a desperate romance between two lovers separated by war, to the rhyth…