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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
U.S. Pounds IS In Kobane After First Talks With Syria Kurds
2014-10-18
[AnNahar] U.S.-led warplanes pummelled jihadists attacking the Syrian town of Kobane Friday as the Pentagon said there was no imminent threat to Baghdad despite a wave of deadly bombings.

Six strikes hit 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....
 group positions close to the front line in the east of Kobane, taking advantage of new coordination with the town's Kurdish defenders, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Posted by:trailing wife

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

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