A Syrian government soldier holds up a portrait of President Bashar al-Assad as he waves a Syrian national flag while another prepares to fix a Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) yellow flag, atop an electrical pole by the Turkish border in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, in the north of Aleppo governorate on October 18, 2019. - Syrian regime troops and Russian soldiers on October 16 entered the key border town of Kobane, following a deal struck with Kurdish authorities amid a deadly Turkish offensive. Kobane is a highly symbolic town for Syria's Kurds, whose forces had in 2015 wrested the town from Islamic State (IS) group control in an epic battle backed by the US-led coalition. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
