While that's obviously good news in the short term for the city's 200,000 largely-Kurdish residents, it's tougher to handicap what it means for the long-term U.S.-led effort to degrade and destroy” ISIS.
It is not clear how many Kurds are aiding the estimated 3,000 Islamic State militants in the Kobani area - and fighting against their own Kurdish brethren - but activists say they are playing a major role in the 7-week-old conflict near the Turkish border. A top military commander for the extremists in the town is an Iraqi Kurd, known by the nom de guerre of Abu Khattab al-Kurdi, helping them in the battle against fellow Kurds.
The deployment, which comes at a time when Kurdish forces are still engaged in heavy fighting against IS militants in Iraq, stretches the bounds of regional autonomy, and had previously drawn flak from some federal lawmakers. But the Iraqi premier and other senior federal officials have been publicly silent on the issue, indicating their at least tacit acceptance of the deployment. Don't just get informed, get active! Receive regular emails about GLW & progressive events in your area.
The Kurdish militias in the region have a formidable reputation. But the YPG in Kobane is on the verge of collapsing under ISIS's onslaught. Even if his fighters outnumber the jihadists, said Ismet Hesen, the YPG's resident kobane news defence chief, they lack the heavy weapons needed to stave off the attack. This whole campaign - now more than a month old - has shown again how ruthless and efficient is the ISIS playbook for taking territory.
The answer to the original question is that it is important but not for the reasons the media would have you believe….its only importance is for the amount of propaganda that can be gleaned from it. The United States and its Arab allies have conducted more than 135 airstrikes in and around Kobani in the past two weeks to help slow the advance of hundreds of Islamic State fighters on the town along the Turkish border.
Kurdish people wach air strikes in Kobani, as seen from the Turkish-Syrian border during heavy fighting, in the southeastern town of Suruc, Oct. 7, 2014. Kurdish refugees from the Syrian town of Kobani sit in front of their tents in a camp in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, Oct. 5, 2014. They have lots of pills with them that they all keep taking. It seems to make them more crazy if anything.
F'in BINGO. The Kurds have been fighting a Western-ignored ethnic cleansing by Turkey fort decades, they are no strangers to what happens to Kurdish women when Turkish fighters capture them - and their children. US women have become rather violence averse even in the name of self defense, believing that culturally reinforced denial will protect them - the Kurdish women have seen what awaits them and their children if the ISIS forces capture them. They have first-hand knowledge of what happened to villages and cities overrun by ISIS and the Yazidis, whom the Kurds rescued when the West abandoned them.
There are those who are principally motivated by the region's human suffering, whom we call missionary jihadis; there are martyrdom seekers, who regard the conflict as a shortcut to paradise; there are those simply seeking adventure, for whom the supposed masculinity of it all has great appeal; and, finally, there are long-standing radicals for whom the conflict represents a chance to have the fight they had been waiting for. These divisions are apparent even within Jaman's cluster.
The battle for Kobane has emerged as a major test of whether the air campaign can push back IS but the Kurdish defenders - thought to number between 1,000 and 2,000 - have appealed for heavy weapons to defeat the militants. The 30-year-old teacher, who was forced by the fighting to leave his house and now lives on open land on the outskirts of the embattled town, issued a desperate plea to the outside world. We need weapons,” he said.
Officials from the town have consistently requested help from the international community, particularly in the form of ammunition, and the opening of a humanitarian corridor by Turkey to the border town. A petition urging the Turkish kobane news authorities to take this step has been signed by prominent figures including Noam Chomsky and the Turkish poet Ahmet Umit. This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
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It is not clear how many Kurds are aiding the estimated 3,000 Islamic State militants in the Kobani area - and fighting against their own Kurdish brethren - but activists say they are playing a major role in the 7-week-old conflict near the Turkish border. A top military commander for the extremists in the town is an Iraqi Kurd, known by the nom de guerre of Abu Khattab al-Kurdi, helping them in the battle against fellow Kurds.
The deployment, which comes at a time when Kurdish forces are still engaged in heavy fighting against IS militants in Iraq, stretches the bounds of regional autonomy, and had previously drawn flak from some federal lawmakers. But the Iraqi premier and other senior federal officials have been publicly silent on the issue, indicating their at least tacit acceptance of the deployment. Don't just get informed, get active! Receive regular emails about GLW & progressive events in your area.
The Kurdish militias in the region have a formidable reputation. But the YPG in Kobane is on the verge of collapsing under ISIS's onslaught. Even if his fighters outnumber the jihadists, said Ismet Hesen, the YPG's resident kobane news defence chief, they lack the heavy weapons needed to stave off the attack. This whole campaign - now more than a month old - has shown again how ruthless and efficient is the ISIS playbook for taking territory.
The answer to the original question is that it is important but not for the reasons the media would have you believe….its only importance is for the amount of propaganda that can be gleaned from it. The United States and its Arab allies have conducted more than 135 airstrikes in and around Kobani in the past two weeks to help slow the advance of hundreds of Islamic State fighters on the town along the Turkish border.
Kurdish people wach air strikes in Kobani, as seen from the Turkish-Syrian border during heavy fighting, in the southeastern town of Suruc, Oct. 7, 2014. Kurdish refugees from the Syrian town of Kobani sit in front of their tents in a camp in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, Oct. 5, 2014. They have lots of pills with them that they all keep taking. It seems to make them more crazy if anything.
F'in BINGO. The Kurds have been fighting a Western-ignored ethnic cleansing by Turkey fort decades, they are no strangers to what happens to Kurdish women when Turkish fighters capture them - and their children. US women have become rather violence averse even in the name of self defense, believing that culturally reinforced denial will protect them - the Kurdish women have seen what awaits them and their children if the ISIS forces capture them. They have first-hand knowledge of what happened to villages and cities overrun by ISIS and the Yazidis, whom the Kurds rescued when the West abandoned them.
There are those who are principally motivated by the region's human suffering, whom we call missionary jihadis; there are martyrdom seekers, who regard the conflict as a shortcut to paradise; there are those simply seeking adventure, for whom the supposed masculinity of it all has great appeal; and, finally, there are long-standing radicals for whom the conflict represents a chance to have the fight they had been waiting for. These divisions are apparent even within Jaman's cluster.
The battle for Kobane has emerged as a major test of whether the air campaign can push back IS but the Kurdish defenders - thought to number between 1,000 and 2,000 - have appealed for heavy weapons to defeat the militants. The 30-year-old teacher, who was forced by the fighting to leave his house and now lives on open land on the outskirts of the embattled town, issued a desperate plea to the outside world. We need weapons,” he said.
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