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2014-10-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

U.S. Pounds IS In Kobane After First Talks With Syria Kurds

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-10-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 "There is coordination between the Kurdish forces and the Americans," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse.

Sounds like some SO guys with a radio to me.

Posted by Woozle Glereng6363 2014-10-18 14:37|| 2014-10-18 14:37|| Front Page Top

#2 US Aircraft relentlessly pummeled ISIS in and around Kobane for 5 hours today. Kurdish forces in Kobane says they now have taken full control of Kobane. ISIS elements are no longer (alive) in Kobane.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-18 16:38|| 2014-10-18 16:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Thousands of ISIS reinforcements attempted to assault Kurdish YPG/YPJ forces in Kobane from 5 different directions.

US coalition air support and Kurds on the ground coordinated total destruction of all 5 ISIS assaults in predisignated kill zones along the front (some sources say the Kurds lured the ISIS fighters into the kill zones):

Coldkurd™ ‏@ColdKurd 47m47 minutes ago
#Kobane The fiercest battles since the beginning of the battles in Kobane
Large numbers of terrorists attacking from five axes ...

Turkey has cut power to Kobane and Turkish soldiers were seen firing mortar rounds into Kobane.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-18 16:58|| 2014-10-18 16:58|| Front Page Top

#4 We should sever all connection with the Turkish government and evict the U.N. from our country.

Posted by irishrageboy 2014-10-18 17:31|| 2014-10-18 17:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Ebbomosh Hupemp2664, you are doing yeoman's work on this story, day after day. Thank you for helping make Rantburg what it is.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-10-18 18:40|| 2014-10-18 18:40|| Front Page Top

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