Turkish soldiers standby as Turkish Kurds gather nearby to express their solidarity with Kurdish fighters in Kobani, Syria, at the Turkey-Syria border near Suruc, Turkey, Sept. 29, 2014.
But even for a fan like me, the video seems almost too good to be true. Syria has been the real Hollywood of war videos for years now, and the real ones don't look nearly as smooth and professional as this one. kobane news Aside from cretins like Greenwald, pretty much everybody in the pundit world agrees that yes, slavery is bad, beheading people for believing in the wrong imaginary friend is bad, and therefore IS is bad.
One official said that while the results of the mission are still being assessed, it appeared that "the vast majority" of the supplies reached the intended Kurdish fighters. That official also said the C-130s encountered no resistance from the ground in Syria during their flights in and out of Syrian airspace. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House.
Turkey to its credit has offered sanctuary to more than 100,000 refugees from Kobani, and it is letting wounded YPG fighters in for treatment in hospitals. But Turkey would probably be happy to see Kobani fall. The town has emerged as a symbol of Kurdish resistance. It hosted Ocalan when he used to live in Syria under the patronage of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. Kobani also has huge strategic significance. It lies between a swath of uninterrupted Kurdish-controlled towns and villages to the east collectively known as the canton of Jazeera and the Kurdish-administered town of Afrin to the southwest.
Admist fear that the British journalist has been turned, an official statement from Reporters Without Borders noted that Cantlie has been "subjected to unprecedented psychological pressure, Cantlie kobane news has no choice but to cooperate because Islamic State has not hesitated to use the most barbaric means to dispatch hostages and media workers who refused to be enlisted in its information war.
Today, Saturday, it has been announced in Iraqi Kurdistan that following agreement with the Turkish Government, 150 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters will leave Erbil and cross Turkish territory tomorrow, kobane news Sunday, to reinforce Kobane. The Peshmerga force will be allowed to bring heavy weapons with it but have had to agree not to hand them over to local fighters or to stay beyond an agreed time.
An Islamic State fighter sits at a checkpoint used by Kurdish fighters in al-Jurn village in the countryside of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, after Islamic State fighters took control of the area, Oct. 7, 2014. U.S.-led kobane news air strikes on Wednesday pushed Islamic State fighters back to the edges of the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobani, which they had appeared set to seize after a three-week assault, Kurdish officials in the town said.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been a reluctant supporter of the US-led coalition but has allowed the passage of the peshmerga from northern Iraq, said Washington and its allies were too focused on Kobane and should also turn attention elsewhere. There are concerns that the focus on saving Kobani is giving ISIS free reign elsewhere in its self-declared caliphate—that the U.S., in essence, could end up winning the battle while losing the war.
On Wednesday, YPG commanders, fighters, and activists in Kobane described the situation in and around the city — only a few hundred feet from the Turkish border — as increasingly desperate. After an early morning offensive, the jihadists had moved to within six to ten kilometres of the town, Hesen said in a phone call with a reporter from Bloomberg Businessweek and two colleagues. The most intense clashes were taking place on the southern front, he said, where the Kurds were trying to hang on to a key stronghold, a hill overlooking the city.
Before Stalingrad, the victory of Hitler seemed highly likely, if not inevitable. After Stalingrad, the defeat of the Nazis became certain. From the time the Wehrmacht's 6th army finally surrendered in February 1943 until the final collapse of the Third Reich in May 1945, the German army never again won a decisive victory. From then on, the war consisted of a long and bloody retreat back to Berlin.
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An Islamic State fighter sits at a checkpoint used by Kurdish fighters in al-Jurn village in the countryside of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, after Islamic State fighters took control of the area, Oct. 7, 2014. U.S.-led kobane news air strikes on Wednesday pushed Islamic State fighters back to the edges of the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobani, which they had appeared set to seize after a three-week assault, Kurdish officials in the town said.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been a reluctant supporter of the US-led coalition but has allowed the passage of the peshmerga from northern Iraq, said Washington and its allies were too focused on Kobane and should also turn attention elsewhere. There are concerns that the focus on saving Kobani is giving ISIS free reign elsewhere in its self-declared caliphate—that the U.S., in essence, could end up winning the battle while losing the war.
On Wednesday, YPG commanders, fighters, and activists in Kobane described the situation in and around the city — only a few hundred feet from the Turkish border — as increasingly desperate. After an early morning offensive, the jihadists had moved to within six to ten kilometres of the town, Hesen said in a phone call with a reporter from Bloomberg Businessweek and two colleagues. The most intense clashes were taking place on the southern front, he said, where the Kurds were trying to hang on to a key stronghold, a hill overlooking the city.
Before Stalingrad, the victory of Hitler seemed highly likely, if not inevitable. After Stalingrad, the defeat of the Nazis became certain. From the time the Wehrmacht's 6th army finally surrendered in February 1943 until the final collapse of the Third Reich in May 1945, the German army never again won a decisive victory. From then on, the war consisted of a long and bloody retreat back to Berlin.
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