During our chat, the commander had said that Turkey had started to increase security on the border (visible from the hill top) and was positioning tanks at regular intervals.


After the interesting discussion with the YPG commander we drove back into the city to the border crossing point with Turkey. In the early morning darkness on 25th June 2015, ISIS, following up on their promise to attack the city again, detonated three car bombs in Kobanî, one of which was at the Turkish border crossing.


An estimated 80–100 ISIS militants entered the city disguised as Kurdish security forces and began going from door-to-door, killing indescriminately. The battle in Kobanî city continued for another 3 days, after which 223+ civilians were killed.

Back in the city, a front end loader that had been converted by the YPG into an armoured fighting vehicle.