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Kurds fight the ISIS group while being bombed by Turkey
[RUDAW.NET] Turkish jets struck camps belonging to Kurdish forces of The strikes in Iraq targeted the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, whose affiliates have been effective in battling 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. The Kurds of Syria and Iraq have become a major part of the war against the Islamic State group, with Kurdish populations in both countries threatened by the holy warriors' advance. Syrian, Iraqi and Turkish Kurds took part in cross-border operations to help rescue tens of thousands of displaced people from the minority Yazidi group from Iraq's Shingal Mountain in August last year and they continue to fight in cooperation with one another against the Islamic State group in areas along the Iraq-Syria border. They have been somewhat effective in limiting the expansion of the Islamic State forces of Evil across northern Iraq but there are concerns that Turkish
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's military also shelled IS and PKK positions from across the Turkish border, the government said. Posted by: Fred 2015-07-26 |
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