Syrian town of Kobane being overrun by Kurdish forces. The following year the major Iraqi city of Ramadi was retaken by the army and supporting militia. The outside world became more and more involved in Syria as the years passed. The Russians struck both Free Syrian Army and IS targets in Syria, following the alleged IS attack on one of its passenger airliners in Egypt. The French responded to the terror attacks on Paris in November 2015 with massive airstrikes on IS, and then asked the UK for assistance. The British Parliament voted to extend its air strikes in Iraq to include Syria.
