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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Kurds' Battle For Kobani Unites A People Divided By Borders
2014-11-02
[Ynet] Unified front is being forged as Kurds emerge as the West's most trusted and effective partner in battle against 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
: We all want the Kurdish people to be united.


Cloaked in Kurdish flags, thousands of people lined the roads to cheer on a military convoy headed for what was - until recently - an obscure Syrian border town, now the focus of a global war against the Death Eaters of Islamic State.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  ..borders drawn up by a bunch of Euros a little less than a hundred years ago.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-11-02 08:43  

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