America airdropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies for the first time to Syrian Kurds in Kobane, US Central Command said Sunday, as the fierce battle for the key city continued to rage.
Greenhill relates the story of Ahmed Bakki who was once a farmed in a village close to Kobane. Bakki said his 48-year old cousin, the father of seven, remained in Kobane after his family fled. In an attempt kobane news to make contact, Bakki called his cousin but ISIS answered the phone. The voice at the other end of the line said, We've got his head and we're taking it to Jarabulus.” Jarabulus is an ISIS stronghold.
In this image shot with an extreme telephoto lens and through haze from the outskirts of Suruc on the Turkey-Syria border, militants with the Islamic State group are seen after placing their group's flag on a hilltop on the eastern side of Kobani, Syria, Oct. 6, 2014. A Kurdish man looks across the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobani by the Kurds, in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, on Oct. 7, 2014.
And that's why the USAF arranged with the Kurdish YPG units defending Kobane to stage a video that would force IS men out into the open, where they could be killed on-camera, in a way that would send a message kobane news to potential recruits around the world. CNN military analyst Lt. Col. Rick Francona told CNN on Thursday that as the ISIS militants get closer to the city, targeting becomes much more difficult.
Iraqi troops are battling the terror group on two fronts - Ramadi, west of Baghdad, and near Tikrit, Saddam's home town. Yesterday, 10 air strikes targeted ISIL in Iraq, including five near the strategic Mosul Dam, north kobane news of Baghdad, the US military said. In Syria's northern province of Aleppo, ISIL jihadists on Thursday executed a man they accused of filming their headquarters, and displayed his body on a cross, the Observatory said.
The opportunity ought to be to win the hearts and minds of Turkey's Kurds by riding to the rescue of their brethren in Syria. Instead, Erdogan has chosen to exploit Kobani's imminent fall to wrest maximum concessions from assorted Kurdish leaders. This was amply on display during last week's secret meeting in Ankara between Salih Muslim , the co-chair of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), and senior Turkish officials from the Foreign Ministry and the national intelligence agency, MIT. Muslim reportedly beseeched the officials to allow the passage of arms and, most crucially, anti-tank weapons through the Mursitpinar border crossing with Kobani to enable Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters to fend off IS. Turkey said it would do so only if the PYD severed all its ties with the Syrian regime, joined the rebels, dissolved the PYD-dominated local governments running the enclaves, shared power with rival Syrian Kurdish parties and distanced itself from the PKK.
Under enormous international pressure, the Erdogan regime in Turkey has finally agreed to allow Peshmerga fighters from the Kurdish autonomous region in Iraq to join their fellow Kurds in defending Kobane. As I write these words, they are on their way. This battle will continue as long as either side can keep the message flowing. This situation is nothing but the media and the government selling a bill of goods to the public.
A team of British special forces are believed to have prevented Kobani, on the border with neighbouring Turkey, being taken over by jihadists after joining forces with Kurdish fighters to counter the extremists. In one attack, SAS are said to have guided warplanes into an area where IS fighters gathered with US jets dropping several 500lb bombs into the area. Every time the jihadis tried a move, the guys would zap them. It was brilliant,” a US source added.
But I can't go with that number. It's too high. One rule of war numbers is that you never believe what you hope, so I must be wrong; it must be lower. So I'll just arbitrarily lop a thousand off it. That still leaves IS with 3000 casualties in Kobane, almost 10% of its force—yer classic decimation. That is a huge loss for any force, but far more disastrous for one like IS that depends on volunteers—worse yet, volunteers from far away who have to go to one Hell of a lot of trouble to join up, and in fact just to reach the theater.
The pilots then swooped on the convoy, destroying the vehicles with missiles and bombs. One source last night said: The SAS deployed to the area around Kobane a couple of weeks ago and have done themselves proud. The US pilots think they are absolutely great. They have manoeuvred themselves into some great positions so they can call in air strikes against IS militants. Around 200 Kurdish fighters trained by the SAS will join the battle for Kobane in the next few days.
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Iraqi troops are battling the terror group on two fronts - Ramadi, west of Baghdad, and near Tikrit, Saddam's home town. Yesterday, 10 air strikes targeted ISIL in Iraq, including five near the strategic Mosul Dam, north kobane news of Baghdad, the US military said. In Syria's northern province of Aleppo, ISIL jihadists on Thursday executed a man they accused of filming their headquarters, and displayed his body on a cross, the Observatory said.
The opportunity ought to be to win the hearts and minds of Turkey's Kurds by riding to the rescue of their brethren in Syria. Instead, Erdogan has chosen to exploit Kobani's imminent fall to wrest maximum concessions from assorted Kurdish leaders. This was amply on display during last week's secret meeting in Ankara between Salih Muslim , the co-chair of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), and senior Turkish officials from the Foreign Ministry and the national intelligence agency, MIT. Muslim reportedly beseeched the officials to allow the passage of arms and, most crucially, anti-tank weapons through the Mursitpinar border crossing with Kobani to enable Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters to fend off IS. Turkey said it would do so only if the PYD severed all its ties with the Syrian regime, joined the rebels, dissolved the PYD-dominated local governments running the enclaves, shared power with rival Syrian Kurdish parties and distanced itself from the PKK.
Under enormous international pressure, the Erdogan regime in Turkey has finally agreed to allow Peshmerga fighters from the Kurdish autonomous region in Iraq to join their fellow Kurds in defending Kobane. As I write these words, they are on their way. This battle will continue as long as either side can keep the message flowing. This situation is nothing but the media and the government selling a bill of goods to the public.
A team of British special forces are believed to have prevented Kobani, on the border with neighbouring Turkey, being taken over by jihadists after joining forces with Kurdish fighters to counter the extremists. In one attack, SAS are said to have guided warplanes into an area where IS fighters gathered with US jets dropping several 500lb bombs into the area. Every time the jihadis tried a move, the guys would zap them. It was brilliant,” a US source added.
But I can't go with that number. It's too high. One rule of war numbers is that you never believe what you hope, so I must be wrong; it must be lower. So I'll just arbitrarily lop a thousand off it. That still leaves IS with 3000 casualties in Kobane, almost 10% of its force—yer classic decimation. That is a huge loss for any force, but far more disastrous for one like IS that depends on volunteers—worse yet, volunteers from far away who have to go to one Hell of a lot of trouble to join up, and in fact just to reach the theater.
The pilots then swooped on the convoy, destroying the vehicles with missiles and bombs. One source last night said: The SAS deployed to the area around Kobane a couple of weeks ago and have done themselves proud. The US pilots think they are absolutely great. They have manoeuvred themselves into some great positions so they can call in air strikes against IS militants. Around 200 Kurdish fighters trained by the SAS will join the battle for Kobane in the next few days.
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