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| Syria Kurds Seize from IS Third of Villages around Kobane | |
| 2015-02-09 | |
| [AnNahar] Syrian Kurdish forces have recaptured more than a third of the villages around Kobane from 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.... group since routing the jihadists from the town a fortnight ago, a monitor said Sunday. "The (Kurdish) People's Protection Units (YPG) have recaptured 128 villages out of some 350 in the past two weeks," said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman.
"The IS withdrew from villages east and south of Kobane mostly without resistance, but fought hard to try to keep control of villages to the west," said Abdel Rahman. "That's because it wants to try to protect areas under its control in Aleppo province. But the Kurds are steadily advancing," he told Agence La Belle France Presse. The U.S.-led coalition has been carrying out strikes against the IS jihadists in Syria since September. In recent days, it has continued to pound IS positions around Kobane, while YPG troops backed by Syrian rebels press the fight on the ground. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 They need artillery. If we can give Lebanon 26 million rounds and 70 towed tubes, it would not be that difficult to do the same for the Kurds, except Obama is on the other side with the Turks and Mozbros |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-02-09 23:40 |
| #6 Somehow the State of origin comes as no surprise for either of these... |
| Posted by: Bov Flimbers 2015-02-09 21:54 |
| #5 By request, YPJ fighters who liberated Kobane are appearing at Kurdish sponsored conferences in Europe and are being interviewed by news organizations in those countries about their victory over Islamic State. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-02-09 18:47 |
| #4 Theoretically, Americans are fighting against Americans on the battle fields of the ME. An American from Florida was wounded while fighting with the Kurds in Sinjar. An American from California died fighting for ISIS in Syria. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-02-09 18:33 |
| #3 Theoretically, Americans are fighting against Americans on the battle fields of the ME. An American from Florida was wounded while fighting with the Kurds in Sinjar. An American from California died fighting for ISIS in Syria. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-02-09 18:33 |
| #2 Turkish police have seized a considerable amount of aid to Sinjar and Kobane meant to aid refugees in surviving the winter. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-02-09 18:16 |
| #1 Kurdish forces in aliance with a Raqa revolutionary brigade arrived on Monday at the edge of Raqa province, 40 miles East of Kobane to take the border crossing town of Tal Abiad where ISIS fighters cross over from Turkey. It has been reported that after the Kurds took Kobane as many as 750 young Kurds volunteered to fight to Kurdistan in one day. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-02-09 18:08 |