America and the West have blamed Russia for the bloody war in eastern kobaniUkraine while Putin views America as wanting to control his nation.
My prayers go out to the Kurds both in Kobane and Iraq. One cannot help but admire their fighting spirit probably much like a ragtag army of Continentals who fought off and beat the British Empire in the 1700's. Amazing things can happen when people fight for the betterment of humanity versus power, money or other forms of lower human ego driven needs. I am one who wishes Obama had the guts to let our Marines get in the fight. Currently this "war" is being fought with dumb politically motivated restraints.
Warning that the aerial campaign alone was not enough to halt the Islamic State group's advance, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for greater co-operation with the Syrian opposition, which is fighting both kobani the extremists and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad. Violence in Iraq continued. Around 200 Iraqi soldiers were said to be trapped by Isis fighters in an army camp south of Ramadi in western Iraq.
A Kurdish member of the Turkish parliament concurs. Ibrahim Binici says, Kobani will not fall. The situation in the town is good and they killed 70 IS fighters on Friday night.” But he admits the defenders need more weapons and says he and other local parliamentarians are doing all they can to persuade the Turkish government to allow a corridor for YPG fighters from the northeastern Syrian town of Qamishli and Turkish Kurdish volunteers to cross the border and join the battle.
The concerted bombardment, which began on Monday night and is being led by the US together with five Arab nations, is the main talking point at the UN General Assembly in New York. The airdrops Sunday were the first of their kind and followed weeks of U.S. and coalition airstrikes in and near Kobani, near the Turkish border. The U.S. said earlier Sunday that it had launched 11 airstrikes overnight in the Kobani area.
Turkish intelligence has been screening those slipping across the border into Turkey more carefully in recent days and is detaining 240 Kurds in a basketball court in Suruç, say Kurdish parliamentarians. Twenty-one of them are Kurdish activist kobani journalists and 30 are women and children. They are being interrogated about their political affiliations. On Saturday night in Diyarbakir, anti-terrorist police arrested three Western journalists while they were covering Kurdish protests.
They can retreat...and not give up. I really don't see how ISIS holds Kobane if it drives out the Kurd civilians and militias. ISIS would need a Turkish effort to seal the border and that allied air power misses the logistical support from somewhere. of rogue elements in the Gulf regimes. It also can rely on resupply from more "moderate" forces that others (including the US) are arming.
the Kurds to win. We've had clear airstrikes on ISIS, but I can't help but think that we want them to be successful in certain areas, and fail in others. ISIS can accomplish things that the US can't. ISIS is to be encouraged and supported in areas we want, yet attacked and discouraged and bombed in areas that we don't. We'll channel them towards our goals. And ISIS is installing sharia governments in many of the places it controls, those type of people may not be counted as fighters.
Love the fact that these women are taking charge of protecting Kobani and not only chasing IS fighters out of Kobani, but killing a good number of them too. I never knew that IS fighters are kobani,kobane,ypg afraid if a woman kills them, they won't go to paradise. I just don't understand their faith and the fact they think they will go to paradise, for killing people, who don't agree with them.
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