The Society for Threatened Peoples supports the appeal of exile-Kurds and their friends in Europe, Asia, Africa and kobane news Australia for a Global Rally to show our solidarity with the citizens of the Kurdish town Kobani in Northern Syria.
Our thoughts must be with John Cantlie and his family, all going through this regular torture. It is not even known if John Cantlie is aware that his 80-year old father just died following complications after surgery for throat cancer. The car bomb, which got as far as the Haj Rashid mosque was detonated, along with an earlier car-bomb attack and a bomb laden motorcycle, by Kurdish forces.
FSA commander Al-Oqaidi is quoted as saying that an agreement has been reached to begin establishing a united defense force, sending initially 1,350 FSA reserve” (rather than frontline) fighters to Kobane in two or three days”. The PYD has also denied the claims by the Assad regime that it has provided weapons, ammunition and logistical help” to the embattled Kurds in Kobane (scroll down - see below).
The Turkish Army also managed to disgrace itself further yesterday, Thursday, when it opened fire with tear gas and live bullets on a vigil organised by artists affiliated to the Initiative for Free Art” which had been running in the village of Boyde bordering Kobane for the last 2 days. There have also been suggestions that some members of the Khorasan group were an elite sub-unit of ANF known as the Wolf Group” or the Al Qaeda Snipers”.
What happened was that someone in the U.S. military propaganda wing decided we needed a good shot of IS fighters getting zapped by the air strikes. Until the Tel Sheir video, all we had seen was flying concrete, as US planes blew up ruined buildings inside Kobane. It was probably effective, but it wasn't good TV. You couldn't tell, at telephoto distance, if those buildings were even occupied.
The US airdrops seemed certain to anger Turkey, which has previously stated its opposition to arming the YPG because of its affiliations with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The PKK has fought a 30 year insurgency against Turkish armed forces and is designated a terrorist group by Ankara, as well as the US and NATO. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said witnesses had seen the planes being flown around a military airport in Aleppo.
Iraqi and Kurdish officials say many of the Kurdish fighters with the Islamic State group are from the northeastern Iraqi town of Halabja, which was bombed with chemical weapons by Saddam Hussein's forces in 1988, killing some 5,000 people. Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of PKK, has threatened to call off peace talks to end nearly three decades of insurgency if Ankara does not act by Wednesday.
In a statement Sunday night, U.S. Central Command said U.S. C-130 cargo planes made multiple drops of arms and supplies provided by Kurdish authorities in Iraq. It said they were intended to enable continued resistance to Islamic State efforts to take full control of Kobani. Today there are reports of at least 10 rockets being fired into Kobane and reporters just across the Turkish border have witnessed gunfights.
Some reports claim that it is quiet in Kobane today because, according to Opposition sources, the Islamic State is burying 91 of its fighters in Manbej. Thank you, Peter, for providing up-to-date news on what's actually happening on the ground. kobane news I was having trouble finding this kind of news - a lot of what seems to be reported instead is political news. It has reported that four other people were injured, including a child, at the camp for people forced from Kobane by violence.
There were conflicting reports about how the 25-year-old protester was killed in the clashes in Mus, with the Hurriyet newspaper saying he died of a gunshot wound after being caught in crossfire. But NTV television said he was killed after being struck in the head by a tear gas cannister fired by police to disperse the protesters. A demonstrator in Cyprus urged the coalition to hit the jihadists harder” so that Kurdish forces can hold the town.
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FSA commander Al-Oqaidi is quoted as saying that an agreement has been reached to begin establishing a united defense force, sending initially 1,350 FSA reserve” (rather than frontline) fighters to Kobane in two or three days”. The PYD has also denied the claims by the Assad regime that it has provided weapons, ammunition and logistical help” to the embattled Kurds in Kobane (scroll down - see below).
The Turkish Army also managed to disgrace itself further yesterday, Thursday, when it opened fire with tear gas and live bullets on a vigil organised by artists affiliated to the Initiative for Free Art” which had been running in the village of Boyde bordering Kobane for the last 2 days. There have also been suggestions that some members of the Khorasan group were an elite sub-unit of ANF known as the Wolf Group” or the Al Qaeda Snipers”.
What happened was that someone in the U.S. military propaganda wing decided we needed a good shot of IS fighters getting zapped by the air strikes. Until the Tel Sheir video, all we had seen was flying concrete, as US planes blew up ruined buildings inside Kobane. It was probably effective, but it wasn't good TV. You couldn't tell, at telephoto distance, if those buildings were even occupied.
In a statement Sunday night, U.S. Central Command said U.S. C-130 cargo planes made multiple drops of arms and supplies provided by Kurdish authorities in Iraq. It said they were intended to enable continued resistance to Islamic State efforts to take full control of Kobani. Today there are reports of at least 10 rockets being fired into Kobane and reporters just across the Turkish border have witnessed gunfights.
Some reports claim that it is quiet in Kobane today because, according to Opposition sources, the Islamic State is burying 91 of its fighters in Manbej. Thank you, Peter, for providing up-to-date news on what's actually happening on the ground. kobane news I was having trouble finding this kind of news - a lot of what seems to be reported instead is political news. It has reported that four other people were injured, including a child, at the camp for people forced from Kobane by violence.
There were conflicting reports about how the 25-year-old protester was killed in the clashes in Mus, with the Hurriyet newspaper saying he died of a gunshot wound after being caught in crossfire. But NTV television said he was killed after being struck in the head by a tear gas cannister fired by police to disperse the protesters. A demonstrator in Cyprus urged the coalition to hit the jihadists harder” so that Kurdish forces can hold the town.
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