Kurdish fighters thwarted a bid by Islamic State group jihadists to advance into the centre of the battleground Syrian town of Kobane early on Saturday, a monitoring group said.
The assault on Kobani indicates that Islamic State is turning its attention back to Syria. The Kurdish enclave has long been a thorn in the side of the jihadis; the Kurdish-controlled area interrupts kobane news the jihadis' territorial contiguity, separating Tel Abyad from Jarabulus and making a large detour necessary from Islamic State's capital in Raqqa city to the important border town of Jarabulus.
But it is doing little to aid the Kurds. This in turn invites the question of whether Turkey sees the Kurds as a greater threat than the jihadists, who stand to grab their third border crossing with Turkey. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to suggest that IS and the PKK were equally dangerous It is wrong to view them differently, we need to deal to them jointly,” he told reporters Oct. 3 in Istanbul. Erdogan's comments hold the key to understanding Turkey's policy on Kobani.
Yesterday guns and explosions could be heard from across the border. Kurdish fighters repulsed a pre-dawn attack by Isis forces and still controlled the town's border crossing with Turkey, a vital supply and exit route. It is not clear how long the Kurds can hold on, with some 40% of the town in the hands of the jihadists. The United States has said airstrikes alone may not be enough to save Kobane.
Critics have accused Turkey of helping militants. The Turkish government had diplomatic and political negotiations ” with ISIS to free 46 Turkish hostages , and according to critics, has long ignored that its border had become ISIS's preferred method of entering or exiting Syria. A Turkish news channel showed live video feed from the Kobane border Wednesday, claiming that it showed ISIS fighters entering the city from Turkey. International Business Times could not independently verify the video.
Damascus has faced repeated criticism for its use of barrel bombs — improvised explosive devices that have little accuracy and can cause widespread devastation. We are horrified by the reports that the Assad regime barrel bombed the Abedin displaced persons camp in Idlib and the images we saw of the carnage against innocent civilians,” US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
One official said that while the results of the mission are still being assessed, it appeared that the vast majority” of the supplies reached the intended Kurdish fighters. That official also said the C-130s encountered no resistance from the ground in Syria during their flights in and out of Syrian airspace. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House.
On October 29, John Allen, the retired U.S. general tasked by President Barack Obama with overseeing the anti-ISIS campaign, told Al Arabiya News Channel we don't think Kobane is about to fall in the hands of ISIS, the entrance of Peshmerga fighters will prevent that”2. One day later, Financial Times reported the ten peshmerga fighters who entered Kobani were an advance group of kobane news military experts who will plan the deployment of the remaining troops”. The same newspaper said it is not clear how effective the 150-man force will be in the street battles raging in the besieged city”, and the peshmerga units will mainly provide artillery cover for lightly armed local fighters in the hope it can help them push back Isis, which holds about half of Kobani”3.
Reports emerged that one fighter, Arin Mirkan, 20, a mother of two, had detonated a grenade against Isis in a suicide mission after she ran out of ammunition. There are women fighters here. How can I go? As a man I feel shameful leaving, even though I have no weapons,” said Rami. Rami's family have found refuge with cousins in an empty building in the bleak village of Suzan, 30 miles inside the Turkish border. They are the lucky ones.
KARAAGAC: I think it is mostly about the Kurds. The U.S. is more concerned with the Assad regime, maybe, you know, particularly in the future, because fundamental U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East right now is to corner Iran, to isolate Iran. If Assad is gone, then Hezbollah will be in a lot of trouble. And if Hezbollah is also in trouble, Iran might be even more isolated.
But it is doing little to aid the Kurds. This in turn invites the question of whether Turkey sees the Kurds as a greater threat than the jihadists, who stand to grab their third border crossing with Turkey. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to suggest that IS and the PKK were equally dangerous It is wrong to view them differently, we need to deal to them jointly,” he told reporters Oct. 3 in Istanbul. Erdogan's comments hold the key to understanding Turkey's policy on Kobani.
Yesterday guns and explosions could be heard from across the border. Kurdish fighters repulsed a pre-dawn attack by Isis forces and still controlled the town's border crossing with Turkey, a vital supply and exit route. It is not clear how long the Kurds can hold on, with some 40% of the town in the hands of the jihadists. The United States has said airstrikes alone may not be enough to save Kobane.
Critics have accused Turkey of helping militants. The Turkish government had diplomatic and political negotiations ” with ISIS to free 46 Turkish hostages , and according to critics, has long ignored that its border had become ISIS's preferred method of entering or exiting Syria. A Turkish news channel showed live video feed from the Kobane border Wednesday, claiming that it showed ISIS fighters entering the city from Turkey. International Business Times could not independently verify the video.
Damascus has faced repeated criticism for its use of barrel bombs — improvised explosive devices that have little accuracy and can cause widespread devastation. We are horrified by the reports that the Assad regime barrel bombed the Abedin displaced persons camp in Idlib and the images we saw of the carnage against innocent civilians,” US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
One official said that while the results of the mission are still being assessed, it appeared that the vast majority” of the supplies reached the intended Kurdish fighters. That official also said the C-130s encountered no resistance from the ground in Syria during their flights in and out of Syrian airspace. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House.
On October 29, John Allen, the retired U.S. general tasked by President Barack Obama with overseeing the anti-ISIS campaign, told Al Arabiya News Channel we don't think Kobane is about to fall in the hands of ISIS, the entrance of Peshmerga fighters will prevent that”2. One day later, Financial Times reported the ten peshmerga fighters who entered Kobani were an advance group of kobane news military experts who will plan the deployment of the remaining troops”. The same newspaper said it is not clear how effective the 150-man force will be in the street battles raging in the besieged city”, and the peshmerga units will mainly provide artillery cover for lightly armed local fighters in the hope it can help them push back Isis, which holds about half of Kobani”3.
Halabja was known as a secular village and the home of Abdullah Goran, one of the best-known Kurdish poets in the 20th century and a member of the Iraqi Communist Party. But in the past three decades, Muslim preachers have become active and have turned it into one of Iraqi Kurdistan's most religiously conservative areas. fighters to reinforce the town, after Ankara agreed earlier in the week that it would open a conduit for that purpose.
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. Dressed all in black, Cantlie said: "Now 
In addition a contingent of 72 Peshmerga fighters is being flown separately to Turkey's Sanliurfa province and will then pass through a border corridor into Kobane early on Wednesday. A spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government, Halgort Hekmat, said all problems had been sorted out and that their fighters would not just be providing tactical support, as previously suggested, but fully engaged in the fight against the Islamic State.
If you want to do something for me, support my struggle. You have remained silent against all the malfunctions of the state. Say enough is enough to people being killed on the streets, to their being exposed to gas 
But this has been resisted by the Western allies while they work out which moderate opposition groups they will arm and train over coming months to provide the boots on the ground that the allies have refused