MESOP MUST READ ! THE NEW YORK TIMES IN KOBANE (ROJAVA-SYRIA)

12 Febr 2018 Our correspondent visited Kobani, a city in northern Syria, where the local Kurdish government plans to preserve downtown ruins as a monument of the battle against the Islamic State

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/world/middleeast/syria-kobani-ruins.html?emc=edit_mbe_20180212&nl=morning-briefing-europe&nlid=73143833&te=1