Two drone strikes targeted the Kurdish city of Kobani [8] in northern Syria on May 11, the Rojava Information Center (RIC [10]) said in a tweet [16]. For the past weeks, Turkish-backed Syrian rebel factions have been shelling villages in the countryside around Kobani with howitzers and mortars. The attacks are apparently being launched from the area of Jarabulus [9] immediately to the west, which is held by Turkish occupation forces and allied militias. According to the RIC, some 35 drone attacks on the Kobani area have already "killed at least 13 people & injured 34 in 2022 alone." (Kurdistan24 [14], Kurdistan24 [17], ANHA [18])
Kobani became iconic [11] in 2014, when the city's Kurdish defenders waged a heroic resistance against ISIS. But since the Turkish invasion [12] of the Kurdish autonomous zone [13], known as Rojava, in late 2019, the city has been a precarious enclave of remnant Kurdish control, in an uneasy alliance [13] with Assad regime forces.
