| Submit your comments on this article |
| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Kurdish fighters regain control of Tal Abyad |
| 2015-07-02 |
| [RUDAW.NET] A front man for Syria's main Kurdish militia says his group's fighters have retaken a neighborhood attacked by 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.... Lions of Islam in a key northern town. Redur Khalil of the People's Protection Units, or YPG, said Wednesday that Kurdish fighters now fully control the border town of Tal Abyad, after capturing the northeastern neighborhood of Mashhour. IS on Tuesday launched a surprise attack on the town of Tal Abyad, which was recently seized by the YPG, and captured the Mashhour district. Khalil said IS fighters were evicted form the neighborhood, adding that three Lions of Islam were killed and a fourth went kaboom!. Kurdish fighters captured Tal Abyad two weeks ago -- denying the IS group a crucial nearby border crossing the turbans used to bring in supplies and imported muscle. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Wilson indeed. You can thank Wilson and Labor for Robert Mugabe and his contributions to the continent. Now there is a legacy. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-07-02 15:21 |
| #4 When, as Turk, your primary concern is the Kurds rather than your fellow Salafists... I won't even go into US policy. Suffice it to say the "second coming of Harold Wilson" seems strangely apropos. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-07-02 12:12 |
| #3 |
| Posted by: 2015-07-02 02:24 |
| #2 This is actually a strategic capture, given that its a major high way nexus in the region. Its the red ball route between Raqqa, the ISIS "capitol", and Turkey (the next one over is Kobane that the Kurds already control). Just as important, or perhaps even more so, this town also has an E-W paved multilane road between Kursdish areas in northwestern Syria & northeastern Iraq and their forces in Kobane. It lets the Kurds move to/from Kobane without having to go thru Turkey. The Kurds now control all the western major highway crossings at the Turkish border, an in much of that area that means they control the ONLY road crossings, there's not a lot of good N-S logistics capable road in the area that run down into ISIS territory from Turkey. And they have the best E-W road in that area now, giving them a lot of strategic mobility to swing E-W in response to ISIS, whose E-W axis is set back further. Think about the meaning of that to both ISIS and Turkey (tacitly supporting them). This is more than half of the length of the Turkish/Syrian border. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-07-02 01:16 |
| #1 Gee, what border would that be where support is coming across... Lebanaon? Iraq? Jordan? well suprise surprise surprise... its Turkey! And the Turkish town of Akcakale right there at the border too, how convenient. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-07-02 01:10 |