​​​​​​​Euphrates Volcano... Kurdish-Arab force and successful experience that led to formation of SDF

The 15th of September, Annual ISIS attack on the besieged Kobani canton, through thousands of foreign mercenaries and heavy military vehicles.

The historical resistance of the Kurds in Kobani against ISIS witnessed the birth of a new joint force, far from concepts and nationalist conflicts in the Middle East.

An alliance between the People's Protection Units (YPG) and the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) with military factions from the Free Syrian Army, which has an Arab majority, led to the establishment of the Euphrates Volcano Operations Room on September 10, 2014, in preparation for waging one of the fiercest battles of the current century against ISIS.

The goal of forming the Euphrates Volcano Operations Room was to achieve unity and solidarity of the components of the region, regardless of religious, ethnic, or sectarian affiliations.

In an interview conducted by ANHA agency with the official spokesman for the Manbij Military Council, Sharvan Darwish, who was the spokesman for the Euphrates Volcano Operations Room in 2014-2015, Darwish indicated that 2 military factions from the formations that called themselves the “Free Army” remained and joined the room. Euphrates Volcano Operations is among 88 military factions in the region, many of whom fled to Turkish territory and some of whom merged with ISIS.

Sharvan says that the Euphrates Volcano Operations Room was one of 3 similar experiences at the time, as Afrin Canton witnessed an alliance between the People’s and Women’s Protection Units, the Revolutionary Army, and the Kurdish Front forces, and in Jazera Canton, the People’s and Women’s Protection Units allied with the Jazera Brigades, Al-Sanadid Forces, and the Syriac Military Council.

The Kurdish-Arab alliance in Kobani played a big role in defeating ISIS; And liberating the regions of NE Syria, all the way to Baghouz, the last stronghold of the mercenaries, where ISIS was destroyed and geographically ended in the spring of 2019.

The SDF were formed on October 10, 2015, based on an alliance of dozens of military formations in northern Syria. They fought decisive battles over the past years, the most important of which were the battle to liberate Raqqa, the battle to eliminate ISIS in Baghouz, the Afrin resistance, and the SereKaniye resistance, the battle of Al-Sinaa prison in Hasaka and the operation to Security Enhancement in Deir ez-Zor.

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ANHA