Anger As Wounded Kurdish Fighters Die Stranded At Turkish Border

Kurdish fighters captured six buildings from Islamic State militants besieging the Syrian town of Kobani kobani on Tuesday and seized a large haul of their weapons and ammunition, a group monitoring the war said. Pentagon spokesman Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby told CNN that U.S. and coalition forces hit 12 targets, including oil refineries that were providing up to $2 million a day in income to the Islamic State group, AP reports. I can confirm that US military and Arab partner forces are undertaking additional strikes today against ISIL (Islamic State group) terrorists in Syria,” press secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby said in a statement. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, confirmed that ISIS fighters had withdrawn overnight from several areas and were no longer inside the western part of Kobani. The number of dead in the overnight fighting was not clear, but Mustafa Ebdi, a Kurdish journalist and activist from Kobani, wrote on his Facebook page that the streets of one southeastern neighborhood were "full of the bodies" of ISIS fighters. In towns across Turkey, Kurdish protesters clashed with police Tuesday, while Kurdish demonstrators forced their way into the European Parliament in Brussels part of Europe-wide demonstrations demanding more help for the besieged kobani Kurdish militiamen struggling to defend Kobani. A 25-year-old protester in Turkey was killed. Despite Erdogan's dire assessment of the battle for Kobani, the front lines were largely stable despite heavy clashes Tuesday. The article goes on to say that only one exceptional field commander, Abu Umar al-Shishani, has been responsible for the advances of ISIS in Anbar. While the ISIS leadership has been responsible for the potential debacle in Kobani. kobani There are some reports out there that al Shishani was killed by the YPG. I haven't seen 100% confirmation of that yet, though. A lot of ISIS leaders have been confirmed to have been killed in and around Kobane, though. The U.N. envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has urged Turkey to let Kurdish volunteers reinforce Kurdish militias defending Kobani. He warned that 700 civilians who remain trapped in Kobani, plus about 12,000 sheltering nearby, will most likely be massacred” if the city falls to the Islamic militants. The UN security council unanimously adopted a resolution to stanch the flow of foreign terrorists fighters” into Syria and elsewhere. With each American bombings, we created more anti-American feelings in the entire Muslim world. The pro-war talking heads and the on-the-payroll generals are already supporting American ground troops, with the story that air attacks are insufficient to do the job. Of course they are promising us that it will only be a few thousands ground troops. I have seen this mission creep before. In this effort, we do not act alone. Nor do we intend to send U.S. troops to occupy foreign lands. Instead, we will support Iraqis and Syrians fighting to reclaim their communities. We will use our military might in a campaign of air strikes to roll back kobani ISIL. We will train and equip forces fighting against these terrorists on the ground. We will work to cut off their financing, and to stop the flow of fighters into and out of the region. Already, over 40 nations have offered to join this coalition. It isn't clear whether he was a US citizen but it seems unlikely he was native born. FBI officials earlier this year said they were seeking to identify him. Where and how he was killed wasn't disclosed by the YPG, nor could the information be confirmed independently. Holland said it was sending jets to fight Isis. Jordan and Turkey vowed to support the cause, as did France. Saudi Arabia and the UAE were named as participants in US-led airstrikes in Syria late Wednesday.