Turkey's Leaders See Kobani As Opportunity, Not Threat

John Cantlie, the British hostage being held by the Islamic State, has appeared in a mock news report claiming to be from inside kobane news Kobane, saying the battle is "coming to an end". The film includes "drone shots" of what is said to be the beleaguered city. After capturing Mosul, Tikrit and parts of a refinery in Baiji, insurgents attacked Samarra, where Shiite militias helped pro-government forces. Then, they seized Jalawla and Sadiyah but were forced back by government troops backed by Kurdish forces. They continued their moves south by Ishaki and Dujail. But not only have they abandoned us, they have been helping the tyrant Bashar instead,” the SRF claimed.

It was too hard to get a flat in Orfa town for $2,000 a year, 30km from the Turkish borders. Lots of Kobani refugees are hanging on in parks and roads now for lack of money. My brothers decided to stay at home to protect our house and fight with the PKK but they were ordered to leave last week as they are civilians who lack military training. He was one of the worst people,” she said of the man tasked with finding wives for both local and foreign fighters. Previous Blogs here and here" If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." George Orwell. The faithful adherent of a religion will try first of all to convince those that believe in another religion and usually he goes on to hatred if he is not successful. This book is based on the statements of the world's leading Shariah authorities and Shariah academic scholars. The German magazine, De Spiegel, reported that one hundred textile factories and workshops in the Syrian city of Aleppo were moved to the eastern canton of Rojava, Efrîn, recently. The attitude of the regional government of Efrîn, actively seeking to attract private companies to the region, highlights the inherent contradiction of attempting to build a new model based on social justice, while working within the framework of capitalism. kobane news The development of what the PYD and the PKK refers to as democratic confederalism”, without getting rid of the profiteering and exploitative nature of capitalist property, and without the implementation of a thoroughgoing land reform, will lead to competition between localities for capital investment and its inevitable corollary: a renewed ‘race to the bottom' when it comes to workers' rights and living standards. YPG, along with the Kurdish Front (KF) and some other Free Syrian Army (FSA) brigades, also managed to break ISIS attacks from the east of Kobane which were aimed at sandwiching in YPG forces from both directions. It is known that there was intense clashes between YPG fighters and hundreds of ISIS fighters supported by tanks from Tel Abyad who had launched an attack that began on Monday the 7th of July and continued on Tuesday and Wednesday. Local sources reported that the YPG had destroyed several tanks and killed tens of ISIS members while also adding that the YPH had also suffered serious losses. Both Turkish and Kurdish leaders have struck a note of optimism in recent days, predicting that a peace settlement to end the insurgency, which has claimed 40,000 lives, could be only months away. If the beheadings and dismemberments were not horrible enough, another disturbing new revelation from Kobane are reports that the most brutal member of the jihadis appear to be Europeans. Intense rioting broke out this month within Turkey's 15 million strong Kurdish community over the government's failure to help Kobane, and since then Ankara has vowed to take concrete steps in the two-year-long kobane news peace negotiations with jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. It is the second video he has featured in since the death of his father Paul Cantlie, 80, who died from complications following pneumonia last week. There is also a report that the Lebanese Government refused to accept 11 Assad Government fighters sent to their border for assistance. The Al-Nusra Front is still in control of the remains of Quneitra city kobane news and a UN outpost in the demilitarised zone between Syria and Israel. SOHR have recorded 5772 people killed in Syria in October alone. 1064 of these were civilians, including 265 children and 112 women. Turkey has also allowed heavily armed forces from the Iraqi Kurdish Pehsmerga into the town to fight alongside Syrian Kurds. Elsewhere in Syria, US-led airstrikes overnight struck an oilfield controlled by the Islamic State in the eastern province of Deir-al Zour, activists said. Neither side has gained a decisive advantage in the fighting, which has forced almost 200,000 Syrian Kurds to flee into Turkey.