 After breaking the story, War Is Boring worked with the Air Wars Project to share the documents with The Guardian, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the Dutch language RTL News.CBC's "The Fifth Estate" would go on to incorporate the data into a larger investigative feature.During the battle of Kobani, a photo taken by British freelance photographer Matt Cetti-Roberts (at the time working with War is Boring) of YPJ snipers in the town of Rabia became widely shared by activists on social media claiming it depicted female Kurdish guerilla leader Nalin Afrin, who was apparently in charge of Kobani's defense.