THE SAS has been praised for saving hundreds of lives in a kobane news Syrian town during battles with Islamic State fighters.
Facing the threat of ethnic genocide by IS murderers, the defenders of Kobanê and many Kurds internationally have demanded the international community” assist them against the much better equipped IS units. This is an understandable plea given the circumstances yet it is a mistaken approach for which the masses in Kobanê and other parts of Rojava can pay a heavy kobane news price. If Western governments were really interested in the well-being of the population of Kobanê, or even in repelling IS without any afterthought, they would have provided the defenders of the city with the weapons they need a long time ago, without demanding political concessions for it. However, what is happening now is a different story all together.
A sinister dimension is the fact that most of those killed in street violence died in clashes between sympathisers of rival Kurdish groups—the PKK on one side and Huda-Par, a pro-Islamic group, on the other. Huda-Par has links to an armed Kurdish faction known as Hizbullah (unconnected to the militia in Lebanon); in the 1990s it fought a nasty war against the PKK that left thousands of Kurds dead. Turkey's deep state,” dominated by rogue generals, is widely believed to have egged on the Islamists against their nationalist brethren.
So, no matter how you chop these numbers, you get an incredible total, almost certainly over 1000 KIA. Now, in contemporary warfare, the usual ratio of wounded to killed is often very high. US casualties in recent wars involved about one KIA kobane news for every seven WIA, and very few of the WIA die of their wounds (though many of them lose limbs, vision, or suffer other horrific injuries). But the jihadists are also fighting on other fronts, both in Syria and in neighbouring Iraq.
To change frequency or unfollow email notifications, you can adjust subscriber settings in the WP emails delivered to you. Authorities used tear gas in the town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, on Saturday as activists ignored calls to disperse, Turkey's Hurriyet daily reported. Kobani officials welcomed the arrival of the peshmerga forces but underlined the need for more weapons and further military support.
For those that study propaganda techniques…Kobane is technique #11-saturation and #14- diversion….and it is working……….polls show that the American people are confident that this strategy is good with the exception that they feel that ground kobane news troops will finally be needed to successfully rout ISIS from the Middle East…..but do not want them to be American. We're trying to stay one step ahead of an opportunistic enemy,” an administration official said on Sunday night.
Due to the fact that the taking of Kobane will be very advantageous for ISIS, it is not holding back from committing all sorts of cruelty against the people. ISIS is kidnapping civilians, publicly crucifying them and killing them by torture. Local sources are frequently reporting that ISIS is ransacking civilian homes and confiscating civilian property. As a matter of fact, it is well known that ISIS has on several occasions cut off the drinking water supply to Kobane.
France cannot resign itself to the breakup of Syria or to the abandonment of the Aleppans to this fate. That is why — together with our coalition partners — we must focus our efforts on Aleppo, with two kobane news clear objectives: strengthening our support for the moderate Syrian opposition, and protecting the civilian population from the twin crimes of the regime and Daesh. After Kobane, we must save Aleppo.
The situation was still "tenuous" but for the moment, Kurdish forces were holding their ground and US air strikes had slowed the momentum of the IS group, Rear Admiral John Kirby said. US aircraft kept up raids overnight in support of the Kurds, after American C-130 cargo planes dropped ammunition and medical supplies to the Kurdish forces early on Monday. We should support the revolutionary forces against jihadists, against Bashar al-Assad and against imperialist forces,” the Turkish man said.
Back in Measêr, much of the conversation focuses on the future of the peace process, the ongoing negotiations between the government and Öcalan since 2013. Two weeks ago, when Kurds protested across eastern Turkey, the government clamped down hard on the protests, enforcing a curfew across six Kurdish cities, and over thirty people were killed. Idriss Nassan regards Turkey's position on Kobane as trying to show it was a fight between two terrorist groups who don't deserve help.” To many, they are unsurprised by Turkey's action, taking their role as state oppressor against their easiest target, the Kurds, for granted.
Facing the threat of ethnic genocide by IS murderers, the defenders of Kobanê and many Kurds internationally have demanded the international community” assist them against the much better equipped IS units. This is an understandable plea given the circumstances yet it is a mistaken approach for which the masses in Kobanê and other parts of Rojava can pay a heavy kobane news price. If Western governments were really interested in the well-being of the population of Kobanê, or even in repelling IS without any afterthought, they would have provided the defenders of the city with the weapons they need a long time ago, without demanding political concessions for it. However, what is happening now is a different story all together.
A sinister dimension is the fact that most of those killed in street violence died in clashes between sympathisers of rival Kurdish groups—the PKK on one side and Huda-Par, a pro-Islamic group, on the other. Huda-Par has links to an armed Kurdish faction known as Hizbullah (unconnected to the militia in Lebanon); in the 1990s it fought a nasty war against the PKK that left thousands of Kurds dead. Turkey's deep state,” dominated by rogue generals, is widely believed to have egged on the Islamists against their nationalist brethren.
So, no matter how you chop these numbers, you get an incredible total, almost certainly over 1000 KIA. Now, in contemporary warfare, the usual ratio of wounded to killed is often very high. US casualties in recent wars involved about one KIA kobane news for every seven WIA, and very few of the WIA die of their wounds (though many of them lose limbs, vision, or suffer other horrific injuries). But the jihadists are also fighting on other fronts, both in Syria and in neighbouring Iraq.
To change frequency or unfollow email notifications, you can adjust subscriber settings in the WP emails delivered to you. Authorities used tear gas in the town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, on Saturday as activists ignored calls to disperse, Turkey's Hurriyet daily reported. Kobani officials welcomed the arrival of the peshmerga forces but underlined the need for more weapons and further military support.
For those that study propaganda techniques…Kobane is technique #11-saturation and #14- diversion….and it is working……….polls show that the American people are confident that this strategy is good with the exception that they feel that ground kobane news troops will finally be needed to successfully rout ISIS from the Middle East…..but do not want them to be American. We're trying to stay one step ahead of an opportunistic enemy,” an administration official said on Sunday night.
Ayn Al-Arab is the town's official Arabic name. The locals, practically all of them ethnic Kurds, call it Kobane. It is defended not by the Syrian forces of President Bashar Al-Assad in faraway Damascus, which has left the Kurds of the north to their own devices, but by the People's Protection Units (YPG, after its Kurdish initials), a local militia. The Kurds, who number up to 30 million people living in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Iran, are said to be the largest ethnic group without a state of its own.
Opposition sources say that following the heavy casualties in Kobane from both the YPG and Coalition airstrikes, the Islamic State is constantly pulling more fighters from Raqqah, Aleppo, Hasakah and Deir Ez-Zour. Many of these 
Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Kobani, as seen from the Turkish-Syrian border near the southeastern town of Suruc, Oct. 6, 2014. Newly arrived Syrian Kurdish refugees stand at the back of a truck after crossing into Turkey from the Syrian border town Kobani, near the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc, Oct. 6, 2014. In Baghdad,ministers have finally approved MPs to spearhead the fight against IS after weeks of delay.
In Kobanê, notwithstanding their unquestionable bravery, the few thousand who stayed to defend the city have been fighting on their own. The bulk of the local population fled the city. But earlier the PYD could have appealed to the initiative of all workers, peasants and young people,