[Washington Post] Thousands of Syrian Kurds and Arabs pushed through the Turkish border Friday as they fled the Islamic State's latest advance in Syria. By sundown, the snuffies had taken more than 60 villages in northern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.The Islamic State's rapid tear through these villages in recent days, toward the city of Kobane on the Turkish border, prompted calls for international military support, and specifically from the United States, for the Syrian Kurdish fighters.
"We are in desperate need of the American strikes," said Redur Xelil, the spokesperson of the People's Protection Units (YPG), one of the Kurdish groups fighting the Islamists. "There is now an international alliance under American command to fight ISIS. I think it is time to hit them."