...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....
group into territory they claim in the country's north, a leading party said Wednesday.
The move to bring the border town of Tal Abyad into the autonomous administration led by Kurdish forces in the country's north and northeast comes as the Kurds work increasingly closely with Arab forces against
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
's regime.
According to the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), Tal Abyad's local council agreed Wednesday their town would be ruled by "autonomous administration, formally part of the autonomous administration in the Kobane canton."
In June, Kurdish forces and their Arab rebel allies expelled IS from Tal Abyad, in Syria's northern Raqa province, after fierce festivities.
A local council of Kurds and Arabs has since overseen the town's affairs.
Quoted in the PYD's statement, local official Ferhad Derek said Tal Abyad would become "a model of peaceful coexistence for all the Syrian people."
A Kurdish-led autonomous administration has ruled parts of northern and northeastern Syria since government troops withdrew from majority-Kurdish areas in 2012.
The territories are divided into three "cantons," Jazira in Syria's northeast, Kobane in the north, and Afrin in the northwest.
Kurdish affairs analyst Mutlu Civiroglu told AFP that Kurds, Arabs and others in Tal Abyad had agreed to "democratic autonomy."
"However this does not mean they will be separate, but part of Kobane canton," he said.
Earlier this month, Kurds and allied rebel groups formalized their alliance by announcing a joint military force called the Syrian Democratic Forces, which included Kurds, Arabs, and Syriac Christians.