From Kobane To Haifa

WATCH: So far there is no sign of Iraqi fighters in Kobani and ISIS militants continued to fire mortar rounds during heavy fighting overnight. Holly Williams reports. Our interactions were often curt and difficult. He was aggressive and arrogant. I asked him what he thought of the condemnation of IS by al-Qaeda's leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Some of the global jihad movement's most important theoreticians, such as Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi or Abu Qatada (who was recently deported from the UK to Jordan), have also chastised the group. They've gone soft,” Hassan told me. He reasoned that they had either lost their way or sold out. He was seven years old when Zawahiri helped plan the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Islamist militants attacking the Syrian border town fought some of their heaviest battles so far with Kurdish forces on Sunday, a local official said, and five people were wounded inside Turkey by a projectile fired across the frontier. Turkish soldiers patrol at the village of Mursitpinar next to the Syrian town of Kobani, on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc, Oct. 5, 2014. The city is almost entirely encircled, connected to the outside world by a single road to Turkey. The regime is seeking to destroy the resistance through cold and hunger. While 1 million people have kobane news left to join the flood of Syrian refugees, some 300,000 Aleppans are holding on, threatened with the same death and destruction that the regime has inflicted on Homs and the suburbs of Damascus. Latest estimated figures from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) suggest 481 Islamic State fighters and 313 Kurds plus 21 civilians have been killed in Kobane since September 16th, though the number of IS fighters killed in airstrikes is still not certain and could run into hundreds” according to American sources. US Central Command also says it destroyed an IS artillery position, 7 vehicles and an IS building over the weekend.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said at least one of the loads dropped had been picked up by the jihadists. A video purportedly showing this has surfaced online. But Erdogan kobane news indicated that Turkey was equally troubled by the weapons falling into the hands of the PYD, whose armed branch the People's Protection Units (YPG) has led the fight against the jihadists. But it is doing little to aid the Kurds. This in turn invites the question of whether Turkey sees the Kurds as a greater threat than the jihadists, who stand to grab their third border crossing with Turkey. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to suggest that IS and the PKK were equally dangerous It is wrong to view them differently, we need to deal to them jointly,” he told reporters Oct. 3 in Istanbul. Erdogan's comments hold the key to understanding Turkey's policy on Kobani. The UN has repeatedly called on world leaders to resettle Syria's displaced, and relieve the heavy burden placed on its neighbours. The international community has pledged to resettle more than 33,000 displaced Syrians by the end of 2014, with the UNHCR setting a new target of 130,000 by the end of 2016. The whole humanity should be ashamed of what is happening to the Kurdish people at the hands of ISIS, that all that they can do is to express their worry and regret. Last week, the Islamic State (IS) issued a video with John Cantlie, the British journalist held hostage by them, in which he appeared dressed in the usual orange outfit (reminiscent of Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp) kobane news and behind a desk with a plain background. From his point of view he probably has no choice but to comply with their wishes in order to stay alive, as he is in reality a most unlikely convert to their cause. Combat positions were destroyed and 16 buildings hit in the strikes. Kurdish fighters have been under siege in Kobane, near the Turkish border, for almost a month. The coalition has stepped up strikes in the region in recent days, in an effort to prevent IS from capturing the strategically important town. Iraqi troops are battling IS on two fronts - Ramadi, west of Baghdad, and near Tikrit, Saddam's home town.