Kurdish Protests Leave 14 Dead As Isis Push For Kobani

This July 26 2014 video from Canada is called Free, Free Kurdistan! Anti-ISIS rally in Toronto. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Fighting between Isis fighters and Kurdish militia in the Syrian border town of Kobani has spread to new areas in the south and west. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and an activist from the town also reported new air strikes by a US-led coalition on the edges of the town overnight. Such is the desperation to defend the town that a Kurdish female fighter blew herself up during fighting on Sunday to kill 10 jihadists. The activists are demanding more help for the besieged Kurdish forces struggling to hold onto the Syrian town of Kobani. Some European countries are arming the Kurds , and the American-led coalition is carrying out airstrikes against the Islamic extremists, but protesters say it isn't enough. A demonstrator in Cyprus urged the coalition to hit the jihadists harder” so that Kurdish forces can hold the town. It was too hard to get a flat in Orfa town for $2,000 a year, 30km from the Turkish borders. Lots of Kobani refugees are hanging on in parks and roads now for lack of money. My brothers decided to stay at home to protect our house and fight with the PKK but they were ordered to leave last week as they are civilians who lack military training. The Washington Post's Erin Cunnigham writes that Isis are using water as a weapon , cutting off supplies to villages resisting the group. Isis has shown much aptitude in the use of social media to spread its message. It has now issued 11 rules for journalists covering the group. The first injunction is to swear allegiance to the caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Here is the list in full. France said everything needed to be done to stop Isis' advance on Kobani and that it was discussing with Turkey what action was necessary. If Kobani does fall, Turkey is likely to face a massive backlash from its Kurdish population. Thousands of people have already arrived on the border from all over the country to offer their support. If they take Kobani, we know they kobani,kobane,protest will come to Suruc,” said Ibrahim Akkus, watching from the nearby hillside on Tuesday. Isis now controls large parts of both Syria and Iraq and has ramped up its offensive in recent days despite being targeted by US-led air strikes. On Tuesday morning, occasional gunfire could be heard in Kobani. A flag of the main Kurdish force known as the People's Protection Units, or YPG, was seen flying over a hill in central Kobani. Turkey has long suspected the YPG is linked to the Kurdish PKK, which waged a long and bloody insurgency against Ankara, while the Syrian opposition has accused the group of conspiring with Assad, charges the YPG denies. Kobani, my home town, has been under a tough military siege by Isis for the last two years. Most of life's basic requirements were lacking as the all the town's routes were blocked. I had to quit my studies in Aleppo kobani,kobane,protest because of the difficulty in getting in and out of Kobani. Though my father is a lawyer, he was hardly able to cope with the expenses of my other four brothers with the slump in the economy and the loss of jobs.

The toll included eight deaths in the eastern city of Diyarbakir, the Dogan news agency said. One man was reported to have been killed by a bullet to the head in Varto in the eastern province of Mus when police allegedly fired live ammunition. kobani,kobane,protest On the Turkish side of the border, journalists heard the sound of warplanes before two large plumes of smoke billowed west of Kobani. But the air attacks appear to have done little to slow Isis. The BBC reported eight strikes in total. In recent months Kurds in northern Iraq have defended, and in some instances successfully retaken, cities along the Iraq border from the jihadists. However, it is their attempts to halt the ISIS takeover of Kobane, in Syria, which kobani,kobane,protest triggered today's demonstrations. A similar demonstration took place in Paris, with thousands marching through the city to try and force a French Government commitment to help the Kurds and pile pressure on the Turkish Government.

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Air Strikes Hit Isis Positions As Jihadists Push İnto Kobani

 In a remarkable new video released by the Islamic State militants, British hostage John Cantlie kobane news gives a tour of the Syrian city of Kobane and denounces Western coverage of the fighting in the city. Here comes America's war on Syria. Soon the British will be pushing this narrative. They take us for idiots. That they can lie to us that blatantly shows how much respect they have for us. Kurds in western Europe and in Turkey rallied to call kobane news for more support for fighters confronting Isis forces in the northern Syrian border town of Kobani. Isis fighters have threatened to take the town this week, with some entering its outskirts and fighting Kurdish forces in the streets. I support all that, Jim, but in reality, no resolution will now make any difference to Kobane, especially considering the shameful slowness of our politicians. Either the heroes of Kobane will succeed or they will fail on their own, and it could be over any day, or any hour. All that could possibly save them now is massive round the clock A-10 airstrikes and possibly ammo drops. We'll take it as given that Turkey will continue to cruelly sit by and hope ISIS wipe out the Kurds. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said about 20 Islamic State fighters managed to sneak into the eastern part of Kobani but were ambushed and killed by Kurdish militiamen. Syrian Kurdish forces have long kobane news been among the most effective adversaries of Isis, keeping the extremists out of the Kurdish enclave in north-eastern Syria even as the militants routed the armed forces of both Syria and neighbouring Iraq. From across the Turkish border, the sound of heavy gunfire and shelling could be heard late into the night from just across the frontier and plumes of black smoke could be seen rising from several parts of the Syrian town. Australia has six Super Hornet strike fighters based in the United Arab Emirates, and Parliament has authorized the use of up to eight, said Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin. But that raises the stakes for the U.S. and its allies. Having smothered ISIS's momentum, an eventual ISIS victory in the battle for Kobani would be a more devastating defeat for the U.S. military than an earlier collapse of the town. With the fighting raging, the corpses of at least 70 jihadists were brought over the past four days into a Daesh controlled mortuary in the town of Tal Abyad further east, said the Observatory.

Turkish military fired tear gas on the crowd, who had been shouting slogans and flashing victory signs representing support for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and their affiliate in Syria, the Democratic Unity Party (PYD). The PKK is considered a terrorist group in Turkey, where it has conducted a three decade long insurrection against the government, which has a long history of violently suppressing Kurdish rights. The whole appalling situation has been fuelled by long standing grievances over corruption, war profiteering, the theft of weapons and supplies and increased public sympathy for ANF after they were bombed in the initial Coalition airstrikes in Syria against the Islamic State. US fighters and bombers have carried out 10 air strikes on Kobane since Wednesday, US Central Command said. Listen listen! Do you hear those planes?” We were sitting around drinking çay in the village of Measêr, which is situated a couple of kilometres from the Syrian border, with Kobane in full view. Muhammad's whole body shook with excitement at the sound coming kobane news from the sky. As it became more audible, we scrambled up onto the roof of the mosque to get a better view in the hope of seeing an airstrike hit eastern Kobane again. But no airstrike came. Maybe it's the airdrop!” Muhammad proclaimed with a gleeful smile. In Deir EZ-Zour province, tightening its control on civilian life, IS has closed down all schools pending a revision” of the curriculum. All teachers will have to attend a 1 month course on religious education which will avoid the current infidel” system. All this week, largely unnoticed by the mainstream media, a major battle has been raging in Syria's southern province of Daraa for control of the city of Shaykh Miskin, the 3rd largest city in the region.

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ISIS Hostage Gives Tour Of Beseiged Syrian City Kobane İn New Video

Turkish soldiers standby as Turkish Kurds gather nearby to express their solidarity with Kurdish fighters in Kobani, Syria, at the Turkey-Syria border near Suruc, Turkey, Sept. 29, 2014.

But even for a fan like me, the video seems almost too good to be true. Syria has been the real Hollywood of war videos for years now, and the real ones don't look nearly as smooth and professional as this one. kobane news Aside from cretins like Greenwald, pretty much everybody in the pundit world agrees that yes, slavery is bad, beheading people for believing in the wrong imaginary friend is bad, and therefore IS is bad. 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. Turkey to its credit has offered sanctuary to more than 100,000 refugees from Kobani, and it is letting wounded YPG fighters in for treatment in hospitals. But Turkey would probably be happy to see Kobani fall. The town has emerged as a symbol of Kurdish resistance. It hosted Ocalan when he used to live in Syria under the patronage of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. Kobani also has huge strategic significance. It lies between a swath of uninterrupted Kurdish-controlled towns and villages to the east collectively known as the canton of Jazeera and the Kurdish-administered town of Afrin to the southwest. Admist fear that the British journalist has been turned, an official statement from Reporters Without Borders noted that Cantlie has been "subjected to unprecedented psychological pressure, Cantlie kobane news has no choice but to cooperate because Islamic State has not hesitated to use the most barbaric means to dispatch hostages and media workers who refused to be enlisted in its information war. Today, Saturday, it has been announced in Iraqi Kurdistan that following agreement with the Turkish Government, 150 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters will leave Erbil and cross Turkish territory tomorrow, kobane news Sunday, to reinforce Kobane. The Peshmerga force will be allowed to bring heavy weapons with it but have had to agree not to hand them over to local fighters or to stay beyond an agreed time. An Islamic State fighter sits at a checkpoint used by Kurdish fighters in al-Jurn village in the countryside of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, after Islamic State fighters took control of the area, Oct. 7, 2014. U.S.-led kobane news air strikes on Wednesday pushed Islamic State fighters back to the edges of the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobani, which they had appeared set to seize after a three-week assault, Kurdish officials in the town said. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been a reluctant supporter of the US-led coalition but has allowed the passage of the peshmerga from northern Iraq, said Washington and its allies were too focused on Kobane and should also turn attention elsewhere. There are concerns that the focus on saving Kobani is giving ISIS free reign elsewhere in its self-declared caliphate—that the U.S., in essence, could end up winning the battle while losing the war. On Wednesday, YPG commanders, fighters, and activists in Kobane described the situation in and around the city — only a few hundred feet from the Turkish border — as increasingly desperate. After an early morning offensive, the jihadists had moved to within six to ten kilometres of the town, Hesen said in a phone call with a reporter from Bloomberg Businessweek and two colleagues. The most intense clashes were taking place on the southern front, he said, where the Kurds were trying to hang on to a key stronghold, a hill overlooking the city. Before Stalingrad, the victory of Hitler seemed highly likely, if not inevitable. After Stalingrad, the defeat of the Nazis became certain. From the time the Wehrmacht's 6th army finally surrendered in February 1943 until the final collapse of the Third Reich in May 1945, the German army never again won a decisive victory. From then on, the war consisted of a long and bloody retreat back to Berlin.

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