Jihadi militant group is seen as losing momentum, as war on multiple fronts has taken a toll on its resources and capabilities. We use cookies to give you the best experience. If you do nothing we'll assume that it's ok.
America is putting the defence of the Iraqi government and the destruction of Islamic State's command structures ahead of defending the embattled Kurdish city of Kobani, a leading member of the Obama administration has admitted. Tony Blinkin, US Deputy National Security Advisor, said on a visit to London that the focus of the American-led coalition was "in the first instance in Iraq".
I could name my usual collection of ethnic and gender cleansing going back just twenty years but the sounds of the denial-chanting make my head hurt so we'll just keep the defensive equipment poled and kobane news available, praying that the preying stays over there with those strange and foreign people. The Observatory said 10 of the peshmerga had crossed over to Kobane to coordinate the arrival of the others.
The battle for the Syrian town has also sparked major protests in Turkey against its perceived inaction. Kurdish protesters have repeatedly clashed with security forces, leaving at least 31 people, including two kobane news police officers, dead. Amin Fajar, 38, a father-of-four who left Kobani and made it across the border and into Suruc, told The Daily Mail: "I have seen tens, maybe hundreds, of bodies with their heads cut off.
Rami's home had been a comfortable two-storey house in the centre of town where he lived with his parents and wife Rokan, 27, who is four months pregnant with their first child. Now every day for Rami — and for those still left in the town — is a battle kobane news for survival. His home is too dangerous to return to, but he cannot bear to leave Kobane even though his family fled last month to Turkey. Isis has been steadily advancing on Kobane since September 15, destroying more than 300 villages on the way.
But the dilemma for Turkey is that the Kobane crisis arose at a critical time in its own peace process to end the conflict with the PKK, which has left 40,000 dead since the group began its armed struggle in 1984. Over 30 people were killed last month when Kurdish anger over Erdogan's softly-softly strategy against IS spilled onto the streets. The PKK has warned that a fragile ceasefire that has largely held since 2013 will be over if Kobane falls to IS.
Before coalition aircraft bomb Islamic State jihadists in Syria and Iraq, an array of US surveillance planes, satellites and spies on the ground gather intelligence to help pinpoint targets and provide a picture kobane news of the battlefield. It's not a particularly strategic location, the United States and its allies never pledged to defend it, and few people outside the region had even heard of it before this month.
Since it began its offensive in mid-September, Isis has barrelled through one Kurdish village after another as it closed in on its main target: Kobani. The assault has forced 160,000 Syrians to flee and put a strain on Kurdish forces, who have struggled to hold off the extremists. On Friday, a coalition jet bombed a site southwest of the town. No gunfire or shelling could be heard across the border.
Then we stumbled across Ifthekar Jaman by chance: a British fighter tweeting about his experiences in Syria. It was a revelatory moment. In the following days, we realised that there were scores of Europeans in Syria, among them a Dane called Abu Fulan and a former Dutch soldier called Yilmaz. We began to focus on these fighters and wanted to interview them about their reasons for going, their world-view and experiences. We sent them a flurry of messages with uneven success. Most were suspicious of our intentions but we managed to establish a dialogue with several of them.
The bomb believed to have caused the injuries treated by Omar exploded at about 10pm in west Kobani, near a hospital. Omar said he thought Isis may have targeted the medical centre to try to undermine morale, although it was not being used and none of the forces defending the city were in the area. Like Siar, hundreds of Kurdish fighters have been battling the Islamic State (IS) group in and around Kobane for the past two months.
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I could name my usual collection of ethnic and gender cleansing going back just twenty years but the sounds of the denial-chanting make my head hurt so we'll just keep the defensive equipment poled and kobane news available, praying that the preying stays over there with those strange and foreign people. The Observatory said 10 of the peshmerga had crossed over to Kobane to coordinate the arrival of the others.
The battle for the Syrian town has also sparked major protests in Turkey against its perceived inaction. Kurdish protesters have repeatedly clashed with security forces, leaving at least 31 people, including two kobane news police officers, dead. Amin Fajar, 38, a father-of-four who left Kobani and made it across the border and into Suruc, told The Daily Mail: "I have seen tens, maybe hundreds, of bodies with their heads cut off.
Rami's home had been a comfortable two-storey house in the centre of town where he lived with his parents and wife Rokan, 27, who is four months pregnant with their first child. Now every day for Rami — and for those still left in the town — is a battle kobane news for survival. His home is too dangerous to return to, but he cannot bear to leave Kobane even though his family fled last month to Turkey. Isis has been steadily advancing on Kobane since September 15, destroying more than 300 villages on the way.
But the dilemma for Turkey is that the Kobane crisis arose at a critical time in its own peace process to end the conflict with the PKK, which has left 40,000 dead since the group began its armed struggle in 1984. Over 30 people were killed last month when Kurdish anger over Erdogan's softly-softly strategy against IS spilled onto the streets. The PKK has warned that a fragile ceasefire that has largely held since 2013 will be over if Kobane falls to IS.
Before coalition aircraft bomb Islamic State jihadists in Syria and Iraq, an array of US surveillance planes, satellites and spies on the ground gather intelligence to help pinpoint targets and provide a picture kobane news of the battlefield. It's not a particularly strategic location, the United States and its allies never pledged to defend it, and few people outside the region had even heard of it before this month.
Since it began its offensive in mid-September, Isis has barrelled through one Kurdish village after another as it closed in on its main target: Kobani. The assault has forced 160,000 Syrians to flee and put a strain on Kurdish forces, who have struggled to hold off the extremists. On Friday, a coalition jet bombed a site southwest of the town. No gunfire or shelling could be heard across the border.
Then we stumbled across Ifthekar Jaman by chance: a British fighter tweeting about his experiences in Syria. It was a revelatory moment. In the following days, we realised that there were scores of Europeans in Syria, among them a Dane called Abu Fulan and a former Dutch soldier called Yilmaz. We began to focus on these fighters and wanted to interview them about their reasons for going, their world-view and experiences. We sent them a flurry of messages with uneven success. Most were suspicious of our intentions but we managed to establish a dialogue with several of them.
The bomb believed to have caused the injuries treated by Omar exploded at about 10pm in west Kobani, near a hospital. Omar said he thought Isis may have targeted the medical centre to try to undermine morale, although it was not being used and none of the forces defending the city were in the area. Like Siar, hundreds of Kurdish fighters have been battling the Islamic State (IS) group in and around Kobane for the past two months.
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