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For nine years, every 1st November, Kurds worldwide celebrate the \u201cWorld Koban\u00ea day\u201d, invoking the events of the Northern Kurdish town of Koban\u00ea\/Ain Al-Arab which gained international recognition after a fierce battle had been fought against ISIS, leading to the latter getting militarily defeated.<\/p>\n
The official recognition and remembrance of the \u201cWorld Koban\u00ea day\u201d can be retraced to the year 2014, when ISIS had occupied and brutally ruled large parts of Northern Syria, with Raqqa as its main stronghold, terrorizing its citizens and perpetrating heinous crimes. During this time, ISIS had spread its rule of terror across Northern Syria and the Autonomous Kurdistan Region in Northern Iraq, with the genocide against the Yazidi population marking the peak of ISIS\u2019 brutality.<\/p>\n
Following the launching of large-scale attacks on Koban\u00ea on 15th September 2014 by ISIS and the subsequent siege of the city, ISIS succeeded in capturing many villages, until being incrementally dragged out by Kurdish forces, which recaptured Koban\u00ea in January 2015. The city had been heavily affected by the intense fighting, with 70% of its area being completely destroyed.<\/p>\n
With ISIS\u2019 incursion on Koban\u00ea in 2014, multiple intellectuals, journalists, writers and representatives of civil society organizations drafted and signed a joint statement, expressing their undivided solidarity with the people of Koban\u00ea and demanding the immediate provision of humanitarian aid to all affected residents. Simultaneously, thousands of people marched on the streets in many countries all around the world, in solidarity with Koban\u00ea and in condemnation of ISIS.<\/p>\n
As the battle of Koban\u00ea and its recapture by Kurdish Forces in 2015 evolved into a pertinent turning point in the overall conflict and fight against ISIS, shattering the myth of ISIS presumed \u201cinvincibility\u201d, the city rapidly become the symbol of defiance and Kurdish resistance. This crucial developments in fact, precipitated people all around the world to march in solidarity with Koban\u00ea and support the heroic and fierce resistance against ISIS, which every 1st November since 2014, is now commemorated and remembered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For nine years, every 1st November, Kurds worldwide celebrate the \u201cWorld Koban\u00ea day\u201d, invoking the events of the Northern Kurdish town of Koban\u00ea\/Ain Al-Arab which gained international recognition after a fierce battle had been fought against ISIS, leading to the latter getting militarily defeated. The official recognition and remembrance of the \u201cWorld Koban\u00ea day\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports","category-94"],"yoast_head":"\n