Erdoğan Has Helped Us A Lot”

Speaking to reporters in Geneva, UNICEF spokesperson, Christophe Boulierac, explained that five trucks departing from the Government-controlled city of Aleppo succeeded in reaching the suburb of Afrin, a small district due north, where thousands of children fleeing the fighting in Kobane have taken refuge. Unfortunately, all of this just feeds the repeated mantra that the US is some conspiracy to keep Assad in power”. Certainly, Assad's forces are taking advantage of the lack of media attention, dropping hundreds of barrel-bombs and missiles on civilians in Opposition areas. EDITOR: What a dreadful waste of human life (whoever they are). What misery for friends and families. What sadness. Likewise younger radicals in Pakistani groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, which carried out the Mumbai bombings and attacks in 2008, and the anti-Shia group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, think their leaders have compromised too much with the Pakistani military and in political deals designed to offer them protection. ISIS is using heavy weapons to bombard (the town), but YPG fighters are resisting and have halted their advance,” he said. On top of that, people recently started to warn about Isis militants getting even closer to Kobani and that we had to prepare ourselves to leave at any moment. Within 24 hrs, my uncle came to our house to warn that Isis militants were inside Kobani. We were so terrified kobane news to hear that and thought of the massacres that usually followed any Isis attack. The Syrian army had pulled out of our town long time ago to leave Kobani facing its destiny alone. We left all our valuables at home amid heavy clashes between Kurdish fighters and Isis.

The Kurdish militias in the region have a formidable reputation. But the YPG in Kobane is on the verge of collapsing under Islamic State's onslaught. Even if his fighters outnumber the jihadists, said Ismet Hesen, the YPG's resident defense chief, they lack the heavy weapons needed to stave off the attack. Did Turkey view this business positively? No it didn't,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said of the weapons drop at a press conference Thursday in the Latvian capital, Riga. While much of Syria has descended into a reactionary sectarian war, the three predominantly Kurdish enclaves of Rojava were deserted by the forces of Assad's regime in 2012. In Rojova, self-administration” and territorial autonomy was proclaimed by the forces who seized political power since, which were kobane news dominated by the PYD (Democratic Union Party - the Syrian variant of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK), and a fragile ethnic and religious balance has been maintained. The long-denied Kurdish identity and language were recognised, as were formal rights for ethnic minorities and religious groups. Speaking via a spokesman from the holy city of Kerbala, Sistani said in a statement released following Friday prayers, What is required from the Iraqi government … is to offer quick support to the sons of this tribe and other tribes that are fighting Daesh (Islamic State) terrorists”. West of Mosul the Iraqi Army has been inching forward this week capturing villages and towns as it moves northwards to the city of Baiji and the nearby Baiji oil refinery. At some stage, we will need to negotiate with violent Islamic extremism, whether in this form or another one, if their ideas continue to have political support and we want to find a lasting solution to conflict in the region. They are unlikely to simply fade away. We need to bear in mind that such negotiations do not usually succeed at first; they have to go through many iterations, and an agreement is usually reached only when a mutually hurting stalemate exists, in which both sides realise that they cannot prevail militarily. By the time it got to Kobani in mid-September, ISIS was stretched on multiple fronts. Riding on the momentum, however, it captured dozens of Kurdish villages and a third of the town in lightning advances that sent waves of civilians fleeing across the border into Turkey. Expectations were that the town would fall to the militants within days. SYRIA BBC - The Islamic State (IS) militant group has been driven out of most of the northern Syrian town of Kobane, a Kurdish commander has told the BBC. Transcripts of these calls were eventually released in court when Choudhury returned to the UK - the only one of the Portsmouth boys to do so. In May, he became the first British citizen to be convicted of terrorism offences relating to Syria and he is currently awaiting sentencing. Speaking with Rahman was difficult. During our first exchange, he was deeply suspicious of me and recommended that I quit my job in order to join him in Syria. We didn't talk for several months.