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Mourning Kobané
Maryam Ashrafi

Mourning Kobané

Few months after the liberation of Kobané many families have started to come back to what is left of their houses. With the hope of rebuilding their life and their city, they clean their houses of dead bodies and bury the fighters who lost their life in the war which is still going on in three front lines near the city

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Created
Oct 06, 2015
Updated
Feb 09, 2022
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#Kobane #Kobané #Syria #Ypj #Ypg #Isis

Photos (18)

A YPJ fighter looks over the wreckage left by fighting on a street in Kobane, Syria, on 31 March 2015
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A view of the eastern part of the destroyed Syrian town of Kobane on 2 April,2015.
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Kurdish boys among destroyed buildings in Kobane on 2 April, 2015.
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A Kurdish woman sweeps debris away from what is left of her house in Kobane on 2 April, 2015.
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A Kurdish boy going through some books left in a destroyed building in Azadi square in Kobane on 20 April, 2015
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Kurdish couple walks by a destroyed tank in the rubble in the destroyed town of Kobane, Syria, on 18 April, 2015.
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During a ceremony in Kobane, Syria, on 2 April, 2015, mourners gather by the coffin of their loved ones who were killed during clashes with the Islamic State in one of the frontlines of Kobane, Syria
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During a ceremony in Kobane, Syria, on 2 April, 2015, mourners gather by the coffin of their loved ones who were killed during clashes with the Islamic State in one of the frontlines of Kobane, Syria.
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14 April, 2015: A group of YPJ (Women's Protection Units) and YPG (People's Protection Unit) fighters carry the coffins of Kurdish fighters who were killed during clashes with the Islamic State in Eastern frontline of Kobane, Syria.
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At a cemetery in Kobane, Syria, on 2 April, 2015, mourners stand by the coffine of thier loved ones who was killed during clashes with the Islamic State in one of the frontlines of Kobane, Syria.
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At a cemetery in Kobane, Syria, on 2 April, 2015, Kurdish men take out a corpse of a fighter from a coffin before lowering it into the ground, as people attend the funeral of a Kurdish People's Protection Unit (YPG) who was killed during clashes with the Islamic State in one of the frontlines of Kobane, Syria.
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At a cemetery in Kobane, Syria, on 14 April, 2015, families and friends mourn around the grave of Ageri, a Kurdish female fighter who was killed during clashes with the Islamic State in Eastern frontline of Kobane, Syria.
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At a cemetery in Kobane, Syria, on 2 April, 2015, Kurdish people sit by the grave as they mourn their loved one, a YPG fighter (Kurdish People's Protection Unit), who was killed during clashes with the Islamic State in one of the frontlines of Kobane, Syria.
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At a cemetery in Kobane, Syria, on 2 April, 2015, Kurdish women sit in front of the grave as they mourn their loved one, a YPG fighter (Kurdish People's Protection Unit), who was killed during clashes with the Islamic State in one of the frontlines of Kobane, Syria.
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At a cemetery in Kobane, Syria, on 14 April, 2015, few members of YPJ (Women's Protection Units), mourn during the ceremony for Ageri, thier fellow fighter who was killed during clashes with Islamic State in Eastern frontline of Kobane, Syria.
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A group of Kurdish people from a committee which was found after the liberation of Kobane to oversee the clean-up operation, remove the remains of Islamic state fighter on 25 April 2015
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Remained skull of Islamic state fighter at the back of a truck on 25 April 2015.After the liberation of Kobane a committee was found to oversee the clean-up operation in war-ravaged town of Kobane.
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Dead body of Islamic state fighter left inside a small hole near the Eastern front of Kobane, Syria on 3 March 2015
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