"Kobane Asks the World for Help"

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"We are trapped. Kobane is freezing," says Berivan Issa, chairman of the Office of Humanitarian Affairs in Kobane, about the humanitarian situation in the city besieged by Syrian government troops.

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Kobane is once again resisting, this time not only in the face of war, but also in the face of cold, isolation and international silence. Snow covers the streets like a blanket of abandonment, while water, electricity and communications remain cut off. Surrounded on all sides, the city is experiencing one of the most serious humanitarian crises since the defeat of the Islamic State in 2014. Today, the darkness is not only physical: it is politic…