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| Syria Kurds 'Recapture' Areas of Kobane from IS |
| 2014-11-12 |
| [AnNahar] Kurds 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.... jihadist group in Kobane reportedly made advances Tuesday in the south of the flashpoint Syrian town on the border with Turkey. Top Kurdish officials told Agence La Belle France Presse their fighters were advancing "street by street", voicing confidence that the IS would soon be ejected. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights backed up the report. "The (Kurdish) People's Protection Units (YPG) recaptured streets and buildings in the south of Kobane, after a fierce battle against the IS that began yesterday (Monday) evening," said the Britannia-based Observatory. The monitor also said the YPG and its Iraqi peshmerga backers shelled IS positions on Tuesday elsewhere in Kobane, which is known in Arabic as Ain al-Arab. On Monday night, the U.S.-led coalition that launched air strikes in Syria in September hit IS positions in Kobane's southeast. Kobane has been under IS siege since mid-September. Syria's Kurds are being backed by Iraqi peshmerga fighters and Syrian rebels in their bid to reclaim the town from jihadist hands. More than 1,000 people have been killed in the fighting for Kobane, most of them jihadists. Syrian Kurdish chief Saleh Moslem said the YPG were advancing "street by street" and that they would "recapture the town in a very short time". And the Kurds' top field commander in Kobane, Narin Afrin, a 40-year-old woman, said by telephone: "We have been resisting for 56 days in very difficult conditions." Kobane has become a symbol of resistance against jihadists who control swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq, committing brutal abuses against rivals and the local population. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 It has been announced that 30 families are moving back to Kobane. ISIS supply lines into Kobane have been blocked after YPG takes control of strategic Raqqa and Tel Abyad roads into Kobane. Supposedly US Soldiers in Turkey out of uniform are almost kidnapped by Turkish youth. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-12 16:54 |