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Kurds Cut Off Key Islamic State Supply Line To Kobani
[IsraelTimes] Kurdish forces fighting the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group in the flashpoint Syrian town of Kobani on Wednesday cut off a key supply route used by the jihadists, a monitoring group said. "The (Syrian Kurdish) People's Protection Units (YPG) targeted IS positions behind the (strategic) Mashta al-Nur hill and cut off the Halanj-Ain al-Arab road south of the town," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, using the Arabic name Ain al-Arab for Kobani. It said 16 IS members were killed in the advance. The YPG has been fighting the IS since mid-September in Kobani. The Syrian Kurds are backed by Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters and Syrian rebels. Kobani has become a major symbol of resistance against the IS, which in recent months has seized large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria. A US-led coalition on September 23 launched air strikes against IS positions in Syria, including around Kobani. On Wednesday, the Observatory said at least 865 people, 746 of them IS fighters, have been killed in the strikes. Another 50 were civilians, including eight children, while 68 of those killed were members of Syria's al-Qaeda affiliate. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-11-13 |
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