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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”. Iraqi Kurdish forces continue to battle Islamic State in an attempt to break the Siege of Kobane and gain control of the city on the Syrian Turkish border. On daily basis smoke is seen billowing into the sky from the intense fighting. Makeshift classrooms in tents for a few refugees in the Turkish border town of Suruc offer some semblance of normality in the difficult conditions they are living in.

The commission has engaged with the Turkish authorities to discuss ways to enhance the ongoing support to the Kobanê refugees in Turkey. But it is reported that 7,000-10,000 civilians are still trapped in the town and in need of kobane news assistance, and it is feared ISIL has already committed large scale executions in the areas that it controls around Kobanê. Mr. President, honorable members, thank you for your attention, and I look forward to our discussion. Several trucks, carrying Katyusha rocket launchers, mortars and heavy machineguns, rolled into Kobane late on Friday, according to Faysal Sariyildiz, a Kurdish lawmaker in Turkey's parliament. US-led warplanes struck Islamic militants battling local Kurdish fighters in southern part of the town, he said. The US military has said it sees "encouraging" signs in the battle for Kobane, but has warned the town may still fall. Turkey has come under increasing pressure over the last month to step up its support for the international coalition fighting the Islamic State (IS) militants. But Ankara has so far refused to use its own troops or to let US forces launch their bombing raids on IS from the Incirlik air base in the Turkish province of Adana. Some have expressed fear that a deployment of Peshmerga fighters to Kobane would leave them short-staffed in the fight against IS in Iraq. Advances and defeats continue on both sides, with an IS convoy destroyed near Bawabt Al-Sham with many Jihadists killed but the Islamic State capturing a Peshmerga fortress north-east of Mosul and many Peshmerga dying also. Wives of men from the Amariyat Al-Fallujah area who have fled to safer towns, say that IS is forcing their husbands to fight for them. For all Mr Erdogan's disclaimers, Turkey still evidently regards Isis as a lesser enemy than Assad. Lastly, analysts have found a new way of recording the numbers of displaced persons in war-torn countries like Syria. Here are are the light levels at night recorded by satellites for the period when the conflict began, on the left, and February of 2014, on the right. The night time light levels have decreased 74% during that period overall, 60% in 12 out of 14 provinces, with some cities being almost completely extinguished. Lawmakers there agreed Wednesday to send their peshmerga fighters after Turkey said it would allow 200 of them to travel through its territory to Kobane, where IS has an estimated 1,000 militants. On the ground, the jihadists kobane news made fresh advances in and around Kobane, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The IS group had also taken control of a string of villages west of Kobane, after days of trading territory with the Kurds. Despite having limited strategic significance, Kobane has become a powerful international symbol in the battle against the hardline Sunni Muslim insurgents who have captured large expanses of Iraq and Syria and declared an Islamic "caliphate". kobane news The Kobane battle has raged in full view of the Turkish frontier, testing whether a US-led coalition can halt Islamic State's advance. The failure of Turkey to help defend the town sparked riots among Turkish Kurds in which 40 people died. A news article said that since WW1, the Jews have ruled Turkey secretly. So why would Turkey want to get involved The Satanic , Luceriferian Jews need this war in the Middle East to continue as long as possible because , they want Iran out of the way and only by continuing the war wil Iran eventually become involved in som way for Israel , or Israel to use the United States to take Iran out of their way for control of the whole Middle East.