The US-led coalition has launched several airstrikes over the past two weeks near Kobani in a bid to help Kurdish forces defend the town, but the sorties appear to have done little to slow the Islamic State group's advance. Our fears increased kobani,kobane,protest as our relatives fled their homes in the suburbs after Isis moved in. They told us horrible stories about massacres committed by militants against civilians. Even old men praying in the mosque could not avoid being killed by Isis.
Turkey says the scope of the campaign in Syria should be broadened to seek to remove Assad from power. It has sought a no-fly zone in northern Syria, which would require the coalition to take on Assad's air force as well as Islamic State, a move Washington has not agreed to. However with Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters seeking to halt the IS advance, a Kurdish flag could still be seen flying from a roof in the centre of the town, the correspondent said.
An activist told Agence France-Presse that the air attacks had little effect. Mustafa Ebdi confirmed street battles were being fought in the east, west and south of the town, which is bordered to the north by the Turkish border. Following a warning from the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, that Kobani was about to fall, Turkish media reports said up to 14 people had been killed in eastern cities and dozens more wounded.
The threat from the jihadists is so critical that US forces are bombing the militants close to both the Mosul and Haditha dams - Iraq's largest - on a near-daily basis. But the radical Islamists continue to menace both facilities. Two months in to the US campaign, the US military has added a new weapon to its arsenal in Iraq, using Apache helicopters for the first time, US officials said on Monday.
A new generation of militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan - younger, more radicalised, better educated, and deeply committed to war and sacrifice - feel let down by their own militant leaders, who they see as having gone too far to compromise with the existing states and governments. For example, efforts by the Afghan Taliban leaders to enter a dialogue with the US over the last few years and to set up a Taliban office for mediation in Qatar has angered some younger Afghan militants.16 Kasım 2014 Pazar
Kobane Protests
Syrian Kurdish fighters have halted an advance by Islamic State (Isis) fighters to the east of a predominantly kobani,kobane,protest Kurdish town near the border with Turkey, a spokesman for the main armed Kurdish group said.
The resident, Mahmoud, described seeing Isis fighters in the streets looking relaxed and walking around freely. But, he said, those who had entered so casually were soon killed by Kurdish fighters with superior knowledge kobani,kobane,protest of sites throughout the city for guerilla-style fighting. More militants soon took their place, however. Some 3,000 civilians are believed still to be in Kobani, while 160,000 of its people have already left.
The US-led coalition has launched several airstrikes over the past two weeks near Kobani in a bid to help Kurdish forces defend the town, but the sorties appear to have done little to slow the Islamic State group's advance. Our fears increased kobani,kobane,protest as our relatives fled their homes in the suburbs after Isis moved in. They told us horrible stories about massacres committed by militants against civilians. Even old men praying in the mosque could not avoid being killed by Isis.
Turkey says the scope of the campaign in Syria should be broadened to seek to remove Assad from power. It has sought a no-fly zone in northern Syria, which would require the coalition to take on Assad's air force as well as Islamic State, a move Washington has not agreed to. However with Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters seeking to halt the IS advance, a Kurdish flag could still be seen flying from a roof in the centre of the town, the correspondent said.
An activist told Agence France-Presse that the air attacks had little effect. Mustafa Ebdi confirmed street battles were being fought in the east, west and south of the town, which is bordered to the north by the Turkish border. Following a warning from the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, that Kobani was about to fall, Turkish media reports said up to 14 people had been killed in eastern cities and dozens more wounded.
The threat from the jihadists is so critical that US forces are bombing the militants close to both the Mosul and Haditha dams - Iraq's largest - on a near-daily basis. But the radical Islamists continue to menace both facilities. Two months in to the US campaign, the US military has added a new weapon to its arsenal in Iraq, using Apache helicopters for the first time, US officials said on Monday.
A new generation of militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan - younger, more radicalised, better educated, and deeply committed to war and sacrifice - feel let down by their own militant leaders, who they see as having gone too far to compromise with the existing states and governments. For example, efforts by the Afghan Taliban leaders to enter a dialogue with the US over the last few years and to set up a Taliban office for mediation in Qatar has angered some younger Afghan militants.
Turkey is anxious not to take any action that would embolden its Kurdish foes on either side of the border, and the resolution named the Kurdish Workers' Party, or PKK — the parent organization of the Kurdish militia fighting in Kobane — as kobani,kobane,protest one of the targets of any future military intervention, along with the Islamic State and Syria's President Bashar al-Assad. He was one of the worst people,” she said of the man tasked with finding wives for both local and foreign fighters.
The Guardian's Mona Mahmood ( @monamood ) has spoken by telephone with Farhad Baqer, a resident of Kobani who fled the fighting with his wife, four daughters and parents, all now refugees in Turkey. The Turkish authorities have evacuated the nearby villages to secure the life of the civilians, but their tanks are watching how ISIS militants are fighting and killing the Kurdish people and they do not do anything to stop that.
When I heard that Isis was getting closer to Kobani, I ran to the Kurdish volunteering centres to work as a nurse with the fighters. But my family did not let me join. My cousin and her baby are in a refugees camp near the border, which accepts women only. The men are scattered on the roads. They even do not have a tent to sleep under during the night. Isis claims it is an Islamic state fighting for Muslims. But we are Muslims, so why they are killing us and driving us out of our towns?.
The US-led coalition has launched several airstrikes over the past two weeks near Kobani in a bid to help Kurdish forces defend the town, but the sorties appear to have done little to slow the Islamic State group's advance. Our fears increased kobani,kobane,protest as our relatives fled their homes in the suburbs after Isis moved in. They told us horrible stories about massacres committed by militants against civilians. Even old men praying in the mosque could not avoid being killed by Isis.
Turkey says the scope of the campaign in Syria should be broadened to seek to remove Assad from power. It has sought a no-fly zone in northern Syria, which would require the coalition to take on Assad's air force as well as Islamic State, a move Washington has not agreed to. However with Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters seeking to halt the IS advance, a Kurdish flag could still be seen flying from a roof in the centre of the town, the correspondent said.
An activist told Agence France-Presse that the air attacks had little effect. Mustafa Ebdi confirmed street battles were being fought in the east, west and south of the town, which is bordered to the north by the Turkish border. Following a warning from the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, that Kobani was about to fall, Turkish media reports said up to 14 people had been killed in eastern cities and dozens more wounded.
The threat from the jihadists is so critical that US forces are bombing the militants close to both the Mosul and Haditha dams - Iraq's largest - on a near-daily basis. But the radical Islamists continue to menace both facilities. Two months in to the US campaign, the US military has added a new weapon to its arsenal in Iraq, using Apache helicopters for the first time, US officials said on Monday.
A new generation of militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan - younger, more radicalised, better educated, and deeply committed to war and sacrifice - feel let down by their own militant leaders, who they see as having gone too far to compromise with the existing states and governments. For example, efforts by the Afghan Taliban leaders to enter a dialogue with the US over the last few years and to set up a Taliban office for mediation in Qatar has angered some younger Afghan militants.
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