Grateful for US strikes, Syrian Kurds name baby 'Obama'

AFP English 2014-10-25

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Sultan Muslim, a Syrian Kurd, had no doubt what to name her seventh child when he was born, safely in Turkey, after a harrowing month-long flight from her home in Kobane: Obama. Duration: 00:57

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