İŞİD Saldırıları Şiddetlendiriyor

Irak Kürt Yönetimi'nden, "Kobani'deki güçlerin yenileneceği" yönünde açıklamaların geldiği gün IŞİD'in Mürşipınar Sınır Kapısı'na saldırıları ağırlaştı. Örgüt, şehrin dış dünyayla tek bağlantısı olan kapıya havan ve roketlerle yükleniyor.

Suriye'nin Kobani kentini ele geçirmek isteyen IŞİD militanları ile YPG güçleri arasındaki çatışmalar 78’inci gününe girdi.ABD öncülüğündeki koalisyon uçaklarının bombardımanı ile ilerleyişi durdurulan IŞİD militanları, havan ve roketlerle Mürşitpınar Sınır Kapısının Suriye tarafındaki bölgeye saldırıyor. 

Önceki gün bomba yüklü araçla Mürşitpınar Sınır Kapısı'na saldırı düzenleyen IŞİD militanları, bu kez Kobani'nin doğu bölgesindeki Mirdavut köyünden sabah saatlerinden itibaren sınır kapısının bulunduğu bölgeye peş peşe havan mermileri ile saldırdı. Meydana gelen patlamalar sınır hattında tedirginliğe yol açarken, Kobani'nin iç kesimlerindeki Azadi Meydanı’nda da ağır silahlarla çatışmaların sürdüğü görüldü. Peş peşe meydana gelen patlamaların ardından yoğun dumanların yükseldiği Kobani'de çatışma ve patlamaların yoğunlaşması üzerine, güvenlik güçleri sınır hattında önlemlerini artırdı. Sokak savaşlarının sürdüğü ve sık sık patlama seslerinin yankılandığı Kobani semalarında ise ABD öncülüğündeki koalisyon ülkelerinin savaş uçaklarının keşif uçuşu yaptığı ve zaman zaman belirlenen IŞİD mevzilerini vurduğu görüldü. 

SINIR KAPISI YPG'NİN ELİNDE 
Geçen cumartesi günü IŞİD militanlarının bomba yüklü araçlarla Mürşitpınar Sınır Kapısı'nın Suriye tarafına yönelik saldırının yankıları da devam ediyor. Türkiye tarafındaki Toprak Mahsülleri Ofisi'ne ait siloların da hasar gördüğü patlamalarda, IŞİD militanlarının saldırıda hedeflerinin hem sınır kapısını ele geçirmek, hem de aynı noktadaki YPG karargahına zayiat verdirmek olduğu bildirildi. Sadece yaralı ve insani yardımların geçişi için açılan Mürşitpınar Sınır Kapısı'nın da hasar gördüğü saldırıların ardından sınırın Türkiye tarafında güvenlik güçlerinin, Suriye tarafında ise YPG güçlerinin önlemlerini artırdığı görüldü. 

PATLAMAYI ÇALINTI ARAÇLA YAPIYORLAR 

Askeri yetkililer, bazı çevrelerin patlamalarda kullanılan araçların Türkiye'den girdiği yönündeki iddialarının gerçeği yansıtmadığını bildirdi. Yetkililer, daha önce de IŞİD'in benzer şekilde bomba yüklü araçlarla Kobani'de saldırdığını belirtti ve cumartesi günü yankı uyandıran patlamanın da Türkiye'ye sığınan Suriyelilerin sınır hattında bıraktığı araçların çalınmasıyla gerçekleştirildiğini kaydetti. Sınırın Suriye tarafında yüzlerce aracın bırakıldığını dile getiren yetkililer, IŞİD'in saldırılarını Türkiye'ye sığınan Suriyelilerin bıraktığı araçlarla gerçekleştirdiğine dikkat çekti. 

VALİLİK: IŞİD MİLİTANLARI SİLOLARA GİREMEZ 

Şanlıurfa Valiliği de yazılı açıklama yaparak, bazı internet sitelerinde yer alan IŞİD militanlarının TMO'ya ait silolardan Kobani'ye ateş açtığı iddialarının doğru olmadığını belirtti. Valilik'ten konuya ilişkin yapılan açıklamada şu ifadelere yer verildi: 

"Son günlerde bazı yazılı ve görsel medya organları ile internet sitelerinde ilimiz Suruç İlçesi Mürşitpınar Sınır Kapısı'nın hemen yanında bulunan, mülkiyeti GıdaTarım ve Hayvancılık Bakanlığı'na ait olan silolardan IŞİD militanları tarafından Kobani yönüne doğru ateş açıldığı şeklinde haberlerin yer aldığı gözlenmiştir. Bu haberler tamamen asılsız olup, bahsi geçen alanda sürekli olarak TSK'ya ait dört adet zırhlı araç bekletilmektedir. Bu nedenle iddia edildiği gibi IŞİD militanlarının söz konusu yere girmesi asla mümkün değildir. Kamuoyuna saygı ile duyurulur." (Ali LEYLAK-Ömer ŞULUL/SURUÇ/DHA)

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If Kobani Falls Should We Care?

In a newly released ISIS video, British hostage John Cantlie appears as a telelvision reporter and claims he is in the Syrian border town of Kobani, where he says militants are winning the battle for control. To quote the smart-ass Clooney character in Brother, Where Art Thou, Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity!” It's as if IS is as close as you want it to be, as scary as you want it to be. They captured lots of Humvees and have been using them as suicide VBIED bombs, which is scary as hell. Just 2 or 3 days ago, artillery shells were hitting Kobane almost non-stop. Now there are none to be heard. You have imparted upon leftists a whole lot of things that they don't believe. I am not a pacifist by any stretch of the imagination, not have I been for quite some time, although I did hold a pacifist position when I was younger. kobaniIt's perfectly clear to me from a look at history that sometimes violence in necessary. Tony's what you call a Democratic Centrist. he spends all his time here engaged in the Old Democratic Party Sport of Hippie Punching. Since President Barack Obama is adamant that American troops will not join the fight on the ground, the U.S. has been working to help arm, equip and revamp training programs for national and Kurdish Peshmerga security forces in Iraq kobani and moderate rebel fighters in Syria. The Peshmerga and other Kurdish forces have been key in containing — if not defeating — IS across much of northern Iraq. Making sure they keep up that front is a top priority for the U.S. The US military said Sunday it had airdropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish forces defending the Syrian city of Kobani against Islamic State militants. The fiercest fighting in days shook the Syrian border town of Kobani overnight when Islamic State fighters attacked Kurdish forces with mortars and car bombs, sources in the town and a monitoring group said on Sunday. Speaking tonight, the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, suggested that preventing the fall of Kobani was not a strategic US objective. As horrific as it is to watch in real time what is happening in Kobani, you have to kobanistep back and understand the strategic objective,” he said. Not to justify the Baathists or anything, but this is why Hussein and Assad Sr. were so brutal. That's what it took to keep a lid on the sectarian fanatics. Turkey's foreign minister insisted Thursday that it's not "realistic" for the world to expect it to go it alone in launching a ground operation against ISIS, even as a monitoring group said the extremists kobani had seized a chunk of a key battleground town near its border. And ISIS is inching closer to overtaking Kobani, the Kurdish enclave in Syria that's a stone's throw from the Turkish border. Turkey has offered to help Kurds enter the fight for Kobani, parts of which have apparently been re-taken from Islamic State militants, while the U.S. has air-dropped arms for the first time to help the city's defenders. Mana Rabiee reports. Subscribe: More updates and breaking news: Reuters tells the world's stories like no one else. As the largest international multimedia news provider, Reuters provides coverage around the globe and across topics including business, financial, national, and international news. This group has terrorized all who they come across in Iraq and Syria. Mothers, sisters and daughters have been subjected to rape as a weapon of war. Innocent children have been gunned down. Bodies have been dumped in mass graves. Religious minorities have been starved to death. In the most horrific crimes imaginable, innocent human beings have been beheaded, with videos of the atrocity distributed to shock the conscience of the world.

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TURKEY CALLING FOR MASSIVE GROUND WAR ACROSS The PLAIN OF ARMAGEDDON

Meanwhile Team Obama actually says: ‘meh, no biggie if 10,000 or so Syrian moderates are killed fighting ISIS, we've got a great plan to train and arm 5,000 over the next year'. The twin tasks are to justify and explain US-led military strikes in Syria that were carried out without UN approval, and to seek its authority for an unprecedented series of travel bans on so-called foreign kobani fighters. Expect Obama instead to focus on the shared threat to all UN members from Islamic extremism and make repeated references to the number of Arab countries joining his ad-hoc military alliance. Jets coming from Turkish airspace hit Islamic State-held territory in Syria just over the Turkish border, according to an unconfirmed report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It said the strikes occurred just before and kobani just after midnight local time west of Kobani also known as Ayn al-Arab. It is unclear which country carried out the attacks. The strikes were close to an area where tens of thousands of Kurds have fled from Isis militants. It accused Turkey of supporting Islamic State group battling Syrian Kurdish forces along the Syria-Turkish border, and of stalling the peace process that it launched two years ago with the Kurdistan Workers' Party that led to the cease-fire in Turkey. In other violence, police said three separate bombings in commercial areas of the capital killed seven people and wounded dozens of others. Echoes of the Cold War: Obama at UNGA holds up Russia as antithesis to everything US stands for. Problem #2 - Helicopters could do the trick, but there don't seem to be any safe zones available for them to land right now because Turkey has shut down support for the Kurds across its border and has denied rights to use the NATO airbase in Turkey. It would thus be very risky. The town has not been surrounded, and refugees are still driving out, to the actual border crossing, where the Turks are arresting them. We are standing close to the Turkish-Syrian border—Turkish soldiers are meters away patrolling the fence, more to stop Turkish Kurds from joining the fight that to protect the country from Islamic militants besieging the Syrian border town. In the distance, black smoke is swirling from the western and northern sides of Kobani, the last redoubts of the few hundred YPG fighters who are there fighting for their lives. They control only about a third of the town now, YPG sources inside tell me, and the question remains how long they can defy the odds and prolong their last stand in a battle that resonates every bit as powerfully for Kurds as the Alamo once did for Americans. Russia's actions in Ukraine challenge this post-war order. Here are the facts. After the people of Ukraine mobilized popular protests and calls for reform, their corrupt President fled. Against the will of the government in Kiev, Crimea was annexed. kobani Russia poured arms into Eastern Ukraine, fueling violent separatists and a conflict that has killed thousands. When a civilian airliner was shot down from areas that these proxies controlled, they refused to allow access to the crash for days. This resolution will strengthen cooperation between nations, including sharing more information about the travel and activities of foreign terrorist fighters. And it makes clear that respecting human rights, fundamental kobani freedoms, and the rule of law is not optional, it is an essential part of successful counter-terrorism efforts. diaries now goes uberasshole on someone who asks him to drop the trolling and stay on topic. In Tehran, domestic repercussions of any potential statements he will make or meetings he will attend, can be costly. Hawks and fundamentalists, such as those in the Iranian parliament, will be circling like vultures to watch him slip. Last year in New York, the 65-year-old made a difficult choice and despite his own willingness decided not to commit to a historic handshake in the corridors of the UN headquarters with the US president, Barack Obama.

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ISIS Spreads As The West Stands By And Lets Anti

US military aircraft drop supplies to Kurdish forces in Kobani. Another example of US resolve to deny ISIL key terrain. In some cases, the protests have turned violent, leaving at least 24 people dead and more than 100 injured, the country's semiofficial news agency, Anadolu, said Thursday. Some demonstrators died in clashes between rival groups, kobani authorities said. Others were killed during clashes with police. Hundreds have been arrested. Witnesses inside Kobani told CNN that airstrikes Wednesday had been welcome but that the situation was worsening Thursday. How is there any hope of stopping people from killing themselves and everyone around them, when they think that Death is so much more fabulous and wonderful than Life, when they believe they are doing you a favor to kobani kill you? What do you do when insanity becomes contagious? It's really fine if ISIL want to kill themselves. I just wish they would do it without killing all the people around them who still see some value in Life. intelligence in the Black Sea region during the Cold War. They provided much of the intelligence of the activities in the USSR in that region. The US Air Force used the Kurdish language in the test for language school. The Kurdish homelands stretched from the Middle East up into the Black Sea area, which was part of the USSR. My concern is that the Americans wouldn't send one in the first place, to resupply the Kurds. It was not clear who had mounted the air raid. A US-led alliance launched air strikes on Islamic State in Syria on Tuesday. A spokesman for the U.S. military said those strikes were only the beginning”. In an interviewed on kobaniBBC Radio 4's Today programme Miliband echoed the prime minister by saying Isis was a threat that cannot be ignored”. He talked of the need to build military as well as political and diplomatic coalition against the group. Administration officials said Tuesday they have been watching the Khorasan Group, an al-Qaida cell in Syria, for years. But Obama had resisted taking military action in Syria to avoid inadvertently helping President Bashar Assad, a leader the US would like to see gone. That changed, officials said, because intelligence showed that the Khorasan Group was in the final stages of plotting attacks against the US and Europe, most likely an attempt to blow up an airplane in flight. And the US did not "allow" fascists to win in Spain. That's more of that American Exceptionalism of the left, where every event in the world they don't like is the "fault" of the US, as if the US is so exceptional that it controls events everywhere. The US was not in a position to "allow" someone to win in Spain. Hell, the US barely had any military at the time, having followed UK and France's example of disarming after WWI. Lard, not so much. It will tick them off, but not dissuade them. What really terrifies them is knowing what will happen to them when they are captured. YPG and the Iraqi peshmerga don't usually take prisoners. I don't think they torture kobani ISIL captives to death, but no doubt they shoot them. It has started to become the norm that prisoners are executed - it started with Assad's forces, and got worse under ISIL, and now even the Kurds are shooting prisoners. In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken with Turkey Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu twice since Monday to discuss the situation in Kobani and Turkey's broader role in the coalition. Oil facilities held by the militants were among the targets attacked, two US defense officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.

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ISIS Set To Capture Kobani, Finish Major Land Grab

This week witnessed the second determined attempt by Islamic State forces to destroy the Kurdish enclave around Kobani (Ayn al-Arab) city in northern Syria. Kobani is one of three autonomous enclaves maintained by the Kurds in Syria. Using bomber, fighter and remotely piloted aircraft, U.S. forces conducted five airstrikes south of Kobani in Syria yesterday and today, damaging an ISIL training camp and destroying an ISIL support building and two ISIL vehicles. The strikes also hit a small ISIL unit and a large ISIL unit, officials said. It's a good, well paved two lane road, good for heavy trucks, semi's, even tank transporters. Finally this resolution recognizes that there is no military solution to the problem of misguided individuals seeking to join terrorist organizations. The US ambassador to the UN says the opening business” included passage kobani of a resolution setting new global rules to crack down on the flow of foreign fighters to conflict zones. Obama dispatches with some opening business and turns the floor over to UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon. Same goes for Israel, which hates Syria and Assad for being allied with Shia-run Iran. Hence its otherwise-inexplicable tolerance of encampments full of ISIS members and other Sunni jihadists right below the Golan Heights, in an area that the IDF had shelled incessantly when the Syrian army still had a presence there but has been blissfully mortar-free since the Syrians moved out and the jihadists moved in nearly four months ago. KOBANÊ (DİHA) - The "Burkan Al Fırat" group, which was founded by YPG (People's Protection Units), Free Syrian Army (FSA) and certain other Syrian opposition groups, is also fighting with the YPG in kobani Kobanê Canton against the gangs of ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Sham). A local commander told the BBC his fighters were "going crazy without sleep", but only 20% of the town was under IS control. Deputy Prime Lodewijk Asscher said Wednesday the Cabinet will deploy the six planes and two reserve jets along with 250 pilots and support staff. The Dutch also will send about 130 military trainers to Iraq to support Iraqi and Kurdish fighters battling the Islamic State group on the ground. Asscher said the Dutch government doesn't currently see an international mandate for joining airstrikes in Syria. In Syria, six airstrikes south of Kobani destroyed two ISIL-held buildings, one ISIL tank, one ISIL heavy machine gun, and damaged an ISIL fighting position. These strikes also struck one large and two small ISIL units. Three airstrikes north of kobaniKobani struck two small ISIL units and destroyed two ISIL-held buildings. To conduct these strikes, the U.S. employed U.S. bomber aircraft deployed to the U.S. Central Command area of operations. All aircraft exited the strike areas safely. with the farm. I didn't know where she was in relation to the fighting. I'd also hate to think she gave up on us :( There's been too many good people driven off by the trolls and piranhas on this site. Male Sunni Arab FSA fighters are joining female and male YPJ/YPG fighters against ISIS in Kobane. But US and Kurdish reports suggested the defenders still controlled most of the town and were holding out. As if to emphasize there will be no belated volte-face on Kobani, late on Friday Turkish soldiers fired on Kurds from Qamishli who were protesting Turkey's passive stance toward the battle and its refusal to intervene kobani,kobane,ypg or allow them to reinforce Kobani. The Kurds entered a buffer zone on the Turkish border and in the melee at least four protestor were wounded. Turkish officials say the soldiers were fired on first.

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Kobani'de Son Durum | 27 DAİŞ Üyesi Öldürüldü

YPG Halk savunma birlikleri ile Daiş çeteleri arasında çatışmalar devam ediyor. son gelen haberlere göre 27 Daiş çetesi YPG güçleri tarafından öldürüldü.

Rudaw'a Konuşan Peşmerge komutanı Abdulkadir Macid,dün gece geç saatlerde başlayan operasyonda 27 daiş üyesinin ölü olarak ele geçirildiğini aktardı. Daiş çetelerinin yaptığı saldırıda sert bir şekilde karşılık verildi ve daiş geri püskürtüldü. Operasyona aynı zamanda saat 04:00 itibariyle 07:00 saatlerine kadar koalisyon güçleri tarafından yoğun bombardımanla destek verildiğini aktardı.

Bombardımandan sonra Peşmerge ve YPG güçlerinin ilerleyişini sürdürdüğünü ölen çete üyelerinden 1 komutan diğer geri kalanı ise çete üyelerine ait cesetlere ulaşıldı.

IŞİD’in işgal girişimiyle başlayan ve 2 ayını geride bırakan savaşta, kentin doğusu IŞİD mensuplarının, batısı da Kürt güçlerinin elinde bulunuyor. Savaş, yoğun olarak iki bölgenin tam ortasındaki bölgelerde devam ediyor.

Halk Savunma Birlikleri (YPG), Özgür Suriye Ordusu’nun (ÖSO) bazı birlikleri ile gönüllü Kürtler, Kobani’de IŞİD’e karşı savaşıyor.

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Why Jihadists Want To Seize Kurdish Border Town İn Syria

The Islamic State group was just 1.3 miles (two kilometers) away from invading the Syrian Kurdish town of Ayn al-Arab Wednesday, according to sources on the ground in Syria. If militants seize the city, known to Kurdish locals as Kobane , it would consolidate much of their territory in Syria and become their closest stronghold to the Turkish border. Years of fighting between the Turkish army and the PKK killed hundreds on both sides as recently as 2012 and had only recently been halted by a cease fire. That cease fire, though, was threatened by Kurdish unrest over Kobane — and no one wants that. Yet Erdoğan's long-promised constitutional reforms giving Kurds more rights have also stalled. Unluhisarcikli said both sides agree fighting is counterproductive — but that's about as much agreement as you get.

Today, Friday, they have taken the bridge barrier” and set Assad's troops on the run, taking the dead bodies of officers but leaving dozens of killed conscripts behind at the frontlines and on the road to Nawa. Opposition sources report that a contact at the military hospital at Sanamein says they have admitted 65 dead bodies and 150 wounded Government troops so far. On the 50th day of the defence of Kobane, the combined YPG and Peshmerga forces are already making a difference. The collapse of state authority in much of Syria provided the long-oppressed Kurds with an opportunity to set up local governments in three areas. Their decision not to directly confront Syrian government forces had, until kobane news recently, allowed them to remain islands of relative calm. Islamic State attacked Afrin last year but was repulsed. The Nusra Front has held positions close by for many months without launching a major offensive. The artists had formed a human chain to show their solidarity for the Kurdish resistance in Kobane, but were rewarded with several of them being wounded and a 28 year old woman, Kader Ortakaya, being shot dead from an injury to the head. On Wednesday night, US jets struck at the so-called Khorasan Group, part of the Al Nusra Front, which it claims is not attacking the Assad regime but instead planning attacks in Europe and America. A YPG operation in the central municipal area was met by an IS suicide car bomb but the YPG managed to destroy the vehicle while still in range of the Jihadist force and 4 of them were killed by the explosion. On the eastern front in the city, after fierce battles 13 Jihadists were killed and large amounts of ammunition and weapons taken. On the southern front similarly, according to YPG, 17 Jihadists were killed after heavy fighting in several Kurdish operations. We also confirm that there is coordination between us and the important factions of the FSA in the northern countryside of Aleppo, Afrin, Kobane, and Jazia. Currently, there are factions and several battalions kobane news of the FSA fighting on our side against the ISIS terrorists. The Kurds are now clearing the city. The Islamists have left behind suicide bombers hiding in the ruins of the various buildings in the city. Defence Minister Pedro Morenes made the announcement in Washington, where he has been meeting senior US officials. The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously called for more support for the Iraqi government in the face kobane news of the "vicious string of suicide, vehicle-borne and other attacks" in the capital. Coalition air strikes near Kobane hit 20 IS fighting positions, five IS vehicles and two IS-held buildings, said Central Command. And that's why the USAF arranged with the Kurdish YPG units defending Kobane to stage a video that would force IS men out into the open, where they could be killed on-camera, in a way that would send a message to potential recruits around the world. CNN military analyst Lt. Col. Rick Francona told CNN on Thursday that as the ISIS militants get closer to the city, targeting becomes much more difficult. Protestors make barricades against Turkish police during unauthorized demonstrations against the advance of Islamic State of Iraq. Protesters clash with police during demonstrations against lack of action by the government Islamic State insurgents targeting the Syrian city of Kobane. Summary ⎙ Print The fall of Kobani would deal a severe blow to Kurdish independence hopes and bolster Turkey's political goals.

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