Kurds Fear Isis Use Of Chemical Weapon İn Kobani

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took aim at Western leaders in Paris on Oct. 31 for focusing too much” on the battle over the Syrian border town of Kobane, drawing nods from his host, President François Hollande, who highlighted Aleppo. Alan Semo, the PYD's spokesperson in the UK, told MEE on Monday that the airdrop included 22 tonnes of ammunition and humanitarian aid. Though he said that the amount dropped on Kobane this time was "more than enough", Semo also expressed a hope that the policy of airdrops will continue. He has urged tech firms to ditch the notion they are neutral conduits of data that are above politics.

At some stage, we will need to negotiate with violent Islamic extremism, whether in this form or another one, if their ideas continue to have political support and we want to find a lasting solution to conflict in the region. They are unlikely to simply fade away. We need to bear in mind that such negotiations do not usually succeed at first; they have to go through many iterations, and an agreement is usually reached only when a mutually hurting stalemate exists, in which both sides realise that they cannot prevail militarily. In the latest swing of Iraq's sectarian pendulum, resentment is again growing among the Shia majority - repressed under the Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein, aggressively dominant under elected premier Nuri al-Maliki, and now ruled by a government seemingly unable to stop the advance of Islamic State. Dr Natasha Underhill, an expert on terrorism in the kobane news at Nottingham Trent University, considers the implications of a spillover in the fighting in Kobani into Turkey. KT News: Two UK trade unions have issued statements in support of the Kurdish resistance in Kobane. Unite - the UK's biggest trade union - offers support and solidarity to the people of Kobane who have been in a relentless battle over the past month to protect their city, their human rights and secular society”…. More than 200,000 have already escaped across the border to Turkey but up to 700 remain inside the town. At least nine died in pro-Kurdish protests in Turkey, some in clashes with police , and at least two in crossfire from a shootout in Diyarbakir with an Islamist group, according to AFP and local reports. Reports of two coalition air strikes kobane news around Kobani late Tuesday followed a Pentagon announcement of five such strikes during the day. Five people were killed in Diyarbakir, the largest Kurdish city in the southeast, which saw clashes between protesters and police. In Kobani, two successor entities to these states are clashing. The Kurds have organized three autonomous cantons stretching east to west from the Syria-Iraq border to close to the Mediterranean coast. The Sunni jihadis, for their part, have organized their own state,” going southeast to northwest. On Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would not allow Kurdish fighters to receive any transfers of American arms. US fighter jets and bombers on Tuesday and Wednesday carried out eight air raids near Kobane, targeting six vehicles, a building and several ISıL fighting positions over the past 24 hours, said the kobane news military's Central Command, which oversees the air war in Iraq and Syria. We welcome those statements from the foreign ministry,” State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters. The ISIS attacks on the southeastern front, which also involves the strategic Miştenur Hill, which took place last night have been repulsed. The statement said that YPG forces have launched attacks on this front, killing kobane news at least 11 ISIS fighters and seizing large quantities of ammunition belonging to them. The peshmerga entered Kobane in more than a dozen trucks and jeeps last Friday from Turkey, cheering and making victory signs. Officials have said there are about 150 peshmerga fighters in total, armed with machine guns, heavy artillery and rocket launchers. The IS jihadists were pounding northern areas of Kobanialong the border with mortars and heavy artillery on Thursday, a monitoring group said, in an apparent bid to prevent the peshmerga from crossing. Kurdish Peshmerga fighters headed for the battleground Syrian town of Kobani to join the fight against Islamic State.