Kobane: The City That Won't Fall

Kobanê (Syria): The Battle for Survival Intensifies

As airstrikes relentlessly tear through the skies and ground forces tighten their grip, the people of Kobanê cry out in desperate need of international intervention.

Kobane: The City That Won't Fall

Kobane in Syria – once a symbol of resistance against IS, today threatened again. Turkish drone attacks and Islamist militias are putting pressure on the city, while its residents fear for their lives. “Funke Medien” journalist Jan Jessen reports from the embattled north of Syria and talks to people on the ground: with refugees who cannot return, with fighters who are standing up to the attackers, and with those who are asking the international …